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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.
 
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* For a brief introduction video, check [http://blip.tv/file/1142312/ Asheesh Laroia talking about liblicense]
 
* To see '''liblicense in action''' take a look at [[License tagger]], the cross platform file metadata editor.
 
* To see '''liblicense in action''' take a look at [[License tagger]], the cross platform file metadata editor.
  

Revision as of 14:27, 12 December 2008

What is liblicense?

In short: 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

Architecture

System architecture.png

Liblicense Architecture - SVG

Bindings

Media

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

Download

Developers: Using git

If you want to check out the source code and develop on it, use this command:

git clone git://code.creativecommons.org/liblicense.git
git submodule init
git submodule update

That should give you a working copy you can commit to. See Git for information on switching to a working copy you can push using.

More Information

See Also


Liblicense
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