Gnome Integration

This is just a draft made of ideas to integrate Creative Commons licenses into the Gnome Desktop. A software repository has been created to host all patches and plugins still not accepted in the different projects. If you have any patch or piece of code which it's useful to the integration, send it to me (acidborg@gmail.com) and I'll upload it to the repository (only GPL code accepted).

Applications aware of CC licenses

• Inkscape
• Epiphany (with Epiphany CC Extension )
• Firefox (with MozCC plugin)
• Banshee (after SoC 2006 project CcBanshee is finished)
• Deskbar applet (with CC search handler). More integration can be achieved when this bug is solved.
• Please add more applications here :)

Applications which could easily become aware of CC licenses

• Abiword: No bug reported.
• EOG: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349222
• Epiphany: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348050
• Evince: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349173
• F-spot: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349360
• GIMP: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349224
• Gnumeric: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349220
• Gthumb: No bug reported.
• Liferea: No bug reported.
• Nautilus: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349170
• OpenOffice: No bug reported.
• Rhythmbox: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346198
• Sound Juicer: No bug reported.
• Totem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347320
• Please add more applications and their bug report page here :)

Things to be done to improve integration into the Gnome desktop

• Send bug reports to applications which could easily become aware of CC licenses. This could be done using Bugzilla.
• Send patches to existing Gnome applications to add CC licenses interaction using Bugzilla.
• If Freedesktop's Metadata Spec is modified to include a "license" field in first class objects specification, Tracker could be used to look for CC licensed files within the desktop. This could be done using Deskbar-applet as front-end.
• Please add more suggestions here :)

Implementations

• Please add your implementation here :)