Re: [Tracker] Introduction and Questions + Creative Commons

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> My name is Jon Phillips and I'm a developer on Inkscape.org and the
> freedesktop.org supported projects, Open Clip Art Library, Create
> Project (and the hopeful Open Font Library). During the day I work for
> Creative Commons as a Developer and I'm interested in the areas you are
> discussing on this list.
>
> I recently came across your project by a posting by a developer hoping
> for Creative Commons integration on the Gnome Desktop. I would like to
> take this a step further for integration on the free desktop (including
> KDE, Gnome, XFCE and others).

sounds good

> Anyhow, I reviewed the Shared Metadata Spec. and am curious how Creative
> Commons licensing, standards, and supported metadata could be integrated
> and/or taken account of in the Shared Metadata Spec.

I plan on adding a File.License field - hopefully this should suffice.


> There are several projects which would like to take advantage of the
> Creative Commons licenses and also some specs. that I have created which
> might be of interested to this list (which I am now a member of):
>
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Desktop_Integration
>
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Operating_System_Integration
>
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer_Challenges

These are interesting.

> Also, I'm curious how major this endeavour is, does it have the blessing
> of the Portland Projects (OSDL, GNOME, KDE, etc) and if so, how can CC
> best support this initiative?

The plan is to get it in gnome first (we will propose for 2.18 in 
october) then approach the other desktops

> As I see there are a few levels that I would like to see metadata on the
> desktop: 1.) on the operating system level (abstracted into a db, like
> what you all provide) 2.) on the file level (embedded inside of a file)
>
> I look forward to joining this discussion...

please do - Im keen to hear new ideas about this.

thanks

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