Liblicense 04 release todo

• features
  • KDE4 integration
    • system settings module
    • file properties license tab
  • OLPC integration
    • Journal integration
  • GUI i18n (liblicense core already handled)
  • Expand liblicense API to allow dynamically populating the jurisdiction selector
  • Automated regression testing, especially for io modules. We need to be *absolutely certain* that data won't be lost

• bugs/issues
  • License chooser api ironing out (http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-devel/2007-July/000539.html). I could wrap the flags to hide the bit-shifting -- but before I do that, I want feedback as to whether this design, in general, works.
  • Use SONAME so applications can request a particular version of liblicense's API/ABI
    • Debian will require this (and everyone else is crazy if they don't)
    • I found one explanation of it while Googling
  • not clear what default-content-license does, exactly- maybe replace 'Default Content License' with 'choose the default license for new content you create' or something like that? (whatever is accurate  :)
  • I'd get rid of the frame around the license chooser. Not used by most gnome apps.
  • URI: what goes there? I assume the license URI, but I'd expect the license chooser would set that, and it doesn't appear to.
  • are there sample files somewhere I can test the nautilus extension on?
  • good packaging practice would break this into liblicense and liblicense-devel, one with the apps and app data another with the libraries. Not a huge deal, but would be necessary before getting it into fedora, for example.
    • We've broken it up into liblicense{,-kde,-gnome}

• tag svn

• package (liblicense, liblicense-kde, and liblicense-gnome)
  • source
  • rpm
  • deb
  • ebuilds (bugs 187196, 185689, and 78021 in gentoo's bugzilla)
  • test them!
  • Known dependencies.
    • libraptor
    • nautilus-python
    • exempi

• publicity
  • freshmeat
  • sourceforge
  •  ?

Asheesh's comments

default-content-license

• In "Creative Commons - Attribution-NoDerivs - 3.0.0", 3.0.0 really should be 3.0 (API allows for arbitrary version divisions)
• Also, default-content-license seems to allow you to check boxes to create combinations where no license exists. That's quite odd.
• How do I unset the default license on my desktop? I ran it once, and it seemed to automatically save, and but I don't want to have set a default license.
• UI is way confusing, dudes

/usr/bin/license

• -h should mean --help
• -m has a comma after it in --help
• -v should mean --verbose
• -q should mean --quiet
• How do I *unset* a license on a document? (New flag, --remove)