XMP and open source article on Linux.com

Mike Linksvayer, April 11th, 2007

Nathan Willis writes about XMP making inroads in open source imaging software at Linux.com. Nice closing:

Take Creative Commons, for example, which has already embraced XMP, even providing custom XMP templates with which Photoshop users can add Creative Commons licensing information. The size of the collective CC-licensed works on the Internet far outscales any personal or corporate collection; who better to leverage that collection than the free software community?

See XMP on the CC developer wiki.

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wpLicense 0.7.6

Nathan Yergler, April 11th, 2007

Today I released wpLicense 0.7.6 (download see update below). It’s a minor bug fix, but one worth noting. Thanks to Tiago and Cristóbal for both reporting the bug.

The bug was simple: the documentation says that the licenseUri function returns the URI of the selected license. And that’s what the internal wpLicense code relied on. However, the implementation actually echo‘d the URI, introducing a race condition: if things were timed just right, the problem wasn’t apparent. But too often they weren’t, and then it was.

There are some outstanding issues with wpLicense, particularly with rendering the selection interface under Internet Explorer. That’s just one of the tasks new web engineer will be tackling when he or she comes on board. Which reminds me, we’re still accepting resumes.

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UPDATE: Yeah, so 0.7.6 only had half the fix; well, the entire fix, but I was braindead with the default parameter value. So I give you 0.7.6.1.

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The CC Tech Blog

Nathan Yergler, April 11th, 2007

Welcome to the Creative Commons Tech Blog. The CC Tech Blog is a new blog from Creative Commons, in particular the geeks at CC. It’s a place where we’ll blog the purely technical details of our projects, the things that probably aren’t of interest to the wider community. If you’re interested in Python coding, WordPress hacking, HTTP acceleration, XML parsing or GUI toolkits, this might be the place for you.

This is a work in progress, so if you have suggestions, ideas or questions, you can find us on IRC or the cc-devel mailing list.

Enjoy!

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