OpenID on the CC Wiki

Thierry Kennes, July 26th, 2007

Creative Commons’ wiki is now an OpenID enabled-site. Don’t hesitate – if you don’t have one yet – to create an OpenID account. There are severals OpenID providers so merely choose one from the list below :

• MyOpenID
• VIdentity
• GetOpenID
• TypeKey
• MyLID
• VeriSign Personnal Identity Provider

A really nice screencast by Don McAllister explaining how to use OpenID can be viewed here.

Edit:  Another screencast from Simon Willison

CC OpenOffice Addin Update: Added Impress funcionality!

ksiomelo, July 24th, 2007

Hello everyone!

I’ve made some changes in the addin and enabled to put licenses in Impress documents. The entire architecture has changed and I’m working on this right now. The newer version is in the CC sourceforge repository!

The easiest way yet to integrate CC licensing into a web app (preview)

asheesh, July 19th, 2007

I’ve been working for the past week or so on a JavaScript licensing widget that has been suggested on our wiki. It’s a new way to integrate CC licensing into your web application. It’s really as easy as pie: Just add the following tag somewhere in the body:

<script src=”http://api.creativecommons.org/jswidget/tags/0.1/complete.js” />

and a CC licensing widget will appear. Your web application can then use
regular DOM queries to determine the user’s choice.

NOTE that this is not ready for prime-time use! I want feedback on what people would like us to add or change. Right now it serves only English-language text; in the future you will be able to add ?locale=, stick your language code at the end, and get text back in your language. Beyond translation, tell me how else I can be of service!

You can download a trivial sample application and a long-ish README at our SourceForge project. For y’all’s convenience here’s a link to the README.

It’ll take you all of five minutes to deeply understand what’s going on, so I suggest you do if you’re thinking about (or if you already are) offering CC licensing to users of web applications you work on.

(P.S. This is cross-posted to the cc-devel list.)

RFC 4946

Mike Linksvayer, July 19th, 2007

James Snell writes that the Atom License Extension is now Experimental RFC 4946.

Many thanks to James Snell for at least two years of work on this.

What is needed to move further along the standards track? More implementations.

There’s a page on the CC wiki about licensing and syndication standards.

liblicense 0.2

Scott Shawcroft, July 13th, 2007

Its here. We just released our first version of liblicense. Its pretty basic but should demonstrate what it’ll do. With the next version, 0.3, we’ll clean up things we’ve spotted already and also things that we’ll discover while we build some apps on top of it. Minimally, 0.2 has a command line program, license, which can be used to get, set and list licenses. We’d love feedback on the code itself and its greater role in the desktop. Please simply reply to this post.

The source files are available on sourceforge.

Exempi 1.99.3 Released

Jason Kivlighn, July 11th, 2007

Hubert Figuiere has released Exempi 1.99.3

An important addition in this release is the ability to serialize XMP to a string, making sidecar XMP possible. The soon-to-be-released Liblicense 0.1 already takes advantage of this feature; it uses Exempi to read and write licenses within XMP sidecar.

Hopefully, the API will soon stabilize in preparation for the 2.0 release.

Sidecar XMP and License Extractors in Tracker

Jason Kivlighn, July 10th, 2007

Tracker has accepted my patches to read XMP sidecar, as well as patches to extract licenses from MS Office (old format), TIFF, HTML, PNG, and PDF. This support will be available in the 0.6 release, which potentially will be released later this week.

My final set of patches will additionally add support for extracting licenses from JPEG, SVG, and OpenOffice’s OASIS. Also, through GStreamer, Tracker already recognizes licenses of Vorbis and FLAC.

This marks the half-way point of Summer of Code 2007.

CC OpenOffice.Org AddIn updates

ksiomelo, July 7th, 2007

Hello all,

updates of the version 0.0.2:

* Creative Commons menu became visible in Calc and Impress

Although it’s is not working properly yet, the addin is now supporting the other ooo applications.

* License Image bug fixed

Now the addin is retrieving the licenses images perfectly!

* Display dialog when opening licensed documents

A simple dialog box is shown when a CC licensed document is opened.

* Checks if the document is already licensed and warns the user

Something like “You have chosen a different license, do you want to proceed anyway?”

… serveral other minor-updates were made in the addin.

Take a look at the screen shots!

License inserted in the document
Document already licensed
Opening a licensed document
Using the CC autotext to replicate the license

Want to try? Just download the ccooo.oxt file and install it from Extension Manager in OpenOffice.Org!

Next steps:

Semantic Videowiki

Mike Linksvayer, July 6th, 2007

Don’t get too excited by the post title, just pointing out a nice 5 minute video (mp4) from Oxford Geek Nights explaining the basic features of Semantic Mediawiki. Thierry is experimenting with SMW features on the CC Wiki.

Liblicense has licenses! 376 of them…

Jason Kivlighn, July 6th, 2007

Prepping for the 0.1 release, I’ve generated RDF descriptions of all CC licenses in all available jurisdictions, as well as the GPL, LGPL, and Public Domain.

Available here:
https://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cctools/liblicense/trunk/licenses/

Each license, if applicable, has all the attributes laid out on the wiki, including localization. One problem, however, is getting localized descriptions of the licenses. That isn’t available at https://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cctools/i18n/trunk/i18n/

Licenses were generated with this python script, which reads the relevant information from creativecommons.org and cctools svn.