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Low-level license metadata integration for applications.

liblicense provides a straight-forward way for developers to build license-aware applications. liblicense utilizes a pluggable module system for reading and writing metadata from specific file types, allowing extensibility for specific content types.

Features

• Extract and write license information for files
• Supports enumeration of available licenses
• Wraps internationalized license information for Creative Commons licenses
• Bindings for dynamic languages (currently Python and Ruby)
• Extensible support for file types using module system
• No specific GUI library dependency allows applications to build the graphical chooser most appropriate for their platform.

Future Improvements

• Supports verification URLs for metadata verification

Architecture

Bindings

• Python
• Ruby

Media

See Operating System Mockups for ideas on how liblicense could be integrated into various platforms.

Download

• Latest Release from Sourceforge.net
• Checkout liblicense module from SVN
• Debian and Ubuntu repositories.
• Read the tutorial.

More Information

• Release History and Roadmap
• Desktop Integration
• Screenshots
• RDF Reference
• Library Documentation (generated from source)

See Also

• Companion File metadata specification
• Tracker CC Indexing

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