Re: CC license viewer inclusion in epiphany-extensions

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On 7/31/06, Jaime Frutos Morales <acidborg gmail com> wrote:
> IMHO it is better to just show a "CC" icon for every kind of license
> instead of showing all the license's features as icons.
>
> The reason is that users can easily associate the CC icon with a
> Creative Commons license and then, if they're interested in reading
> the license details, they just have to click on the CC icon to read
> the license deed. I don't like to have an overcrowded statusbar, so a
> single icon can do the trick.
>
> What do the rest of the developers think about this?

Cc is trying to emphasize branding of individual licenses, and
communicate that all licenses are not equal. This push is still in the
planning stages, but it would be good to be ready for it, I believe.

Luis (very excited to see ths- will contribute more to the gnome-cc
discussion when my move is complete.)

> 2006/7/31, Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer lunden gmail com>:
> > On 7/31/06, Jaime Frutos Morales <acidborg gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > A few days ago I sent a new extension to Bugzilla called "Creative
> > > Commons license viewer" [1] and I wonder whether it could be included
> > > in the next epiphany-extension release or not. It has received good
> > > comments and it has Creative Commons approval [2]. It would also
> > > contribute to Gnome-CC integration [3].
> >
> >
> > I've not tried any of them (yet), but looking at the screenshot for the
> > corresponding Firefox extension [1] it seems to display icons for type of
> > license too (in this case BY/requires attribution). I think that would be a
> > nice feature to add, as it makes it easier to see what kind of license at a
> > glance, for those interested. Just a thought.
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/MozCC
> >  -- Stoffe
> >
> >
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