Re: photo licenses in F-spot

[Alvaro del Castillo <acs openshine com>]

Hi!

El mié, 20-07-2005 a las 07:15 -0400, Patrick Wagstrom escribió:
> > Could it be possible to include in this dialog a license selector for
> > the photos? If you don't put a license in the photos, they have all
> > rights reserved so if you are not the author you can't copy it, can't
> > modifiy it ... It could be very cool to have a license selector using
> > Creative Commons licenses and also, other license that people in the
> > list could propose. I offer my help for the Creative Commons zone.
> 
> Actually this is exactly what I started doing last night.  I had
> originally done licenses as tags, which ends up creating a lot of tags
> and making it a little difficult to sort through photos.  So I've
> created a license table in the database and a join table for photos.
> 

This is great! I was playing with the idea and also, coded something
with tags. But the result was confussing for the end user so I think I
need to think more about it, and I see you have gone more far with the
idea.

> Initially the license table is populated with creative commons licenses
> and contains the name of the licenses and where one can get more
> information.  Each license also has a few bits identifying the various
> CC proprieties, like share-alike, derivatives, commercial use, etc.
> 

I suppose we will need a scheme that enable us to insert a generic
license. Could you share your current database scheme?

> The thought is that you'll be able to add a license to your photos in
> the similar way that you add tags to photos, with the exception that
> you'll be limited to one license per photo.

I am impatient to take a look to the GUI for adding licenses to photos.

> 
> If you have photos that are tagged with licenses then you would be able
> to browse by license, or browse by features of the license.  For
> example, look at all the photos that allow derivative work.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

It looks pretty cool so far. But, if you aren't using tags, I can't
imagine for now the GUI.

Later, we will need to ask Web Gallery, Flickr, Original and othe web
gallery software that they should offer us some way to export the
licenses with the photos once we publish them with F-Spot.

Cheers

-- Alvaro

> --Patrick
> 
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