licensing-brainstorming

Licensing Brainstorming

The very beginning.

See licensing for background.

Discussion

Set of classes pertinent to supporting licensing and attribution requirements and complements. These classes could be used at webpage level or within relevant microformats, e.g., media-info.

Overly descriptive strawman not intended to conform with any convention	Existing class(es); source	Notes
work title	fn; hCard
attribution name	author; hAtom	Might be a vcard with fn, may also be an organization
attribution url	url; hCard	An author might have a url, should this be taken as the attribution url? If a work has a url, should it be taken as the attribution url?
donation url	payment; rel-payment
commercial licensing url, purchase url	payment; rel-payment	How to disambiguate from donation?
content hash	checksum, sha1; hash-examples

Strawman example

Perhaps there should be an 'attribution' class which might hint that a fn or url should be used for attribution? Something like (webpage scope):

<a class="url attribution fn" href="http://example.com">My First Cookbook</a>
<div class="author vcard">
  <div class="fn attribution">J Doe</div>
</div>
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">(cc)</a>
<a rel="payment" href="http://paypal.com/...">don't let me starve</a>

Todo

• Answer questions above and those not posed
• Discover and fix gratuitous problems with the above
• Examples working with media-info