Difference between revisions of "LibccLicense"

Purpose

To provide a generic interface to the CC license data, license choice data and license choice logic.

Audience

Application developers who wish to choose and/or verify CC licenses.

Implementation

This library will be implemented in C to provide maximum portability.

Interface

• Data accessors.
  • get_locale(uri)
  • get_jurisdiction(uri)
  • get_name(uri)
  • get_version(uri)
  • is(attribute,uri)
  • category(uri)
  • get_notification(uri[,url])

• Data verification.
  • verify_uri(uri)

• License chooser (return uris)
  • get_license(category,flags)
  • get_license_options(category,locale)

Data Structure

• Data Types (informal)
  • uri
  • name
  • notification
  • deed
  • sampling

Diskwise

• licenses
  • creative_commons_sampling
  • creative_commons
    • licenses
    • flags
    • name
    • general

Bindings

• Python

Uses

libccLicense system implementation guidelines

• Gnome
• KDE
• OpenMoko
• Sugar (OLPC)