[uf-discuss] rel="license" and copyright

[David Janes]

The _link_ itself isn't a negative assertion; the negative assertion
is in the rights conferered on others by the license that is linked
to. "Copyright Me, All Rights Reserved" is a good a legal license a
"Free For All, Help Yourself".

The URI could be to the copyright office.

Regards, etc...
David

On 11/18/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 11/17/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think that makes any sense. You should make positive
> > assertions about data, not negative ones...
>
> Why?
>
> Andy is in fact trying to make a negative assertion, of the "license" token.
>
> > and why bother with a
> > "not-a-license" schema? There's far too many negatives... as in
> > licenses that it wouldn't be....
>
> Andy might want to name one (or a few) specific licenses that it is not.
>
> > I think we ought only deal with what things *are* and not what they *aren't*.
>
> That's fine, but they you need to put the "negative" into the token...
> as in "nolicense" or something like that.
>
>
> See ya
>
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 11/17/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello Andy,
> > >
> > > On 11/17/06, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm starting to look at using rel="license". Am I right in thing that it
> > > > can be used to indicate that a page is NOT available under a license, as
> > > > well as for those that are? For instance:
> > > >
> > > >         This page is <a rel="license"
> > > >         href="http://www.example.com/copyright>copyright Example Ltd.
> > > >         2006</a> and may not be reproduced.
> > >
> > > I think that to indicate that something is NOT available under a
> > > certain license you'd really need something like a "norel" attribute.
> > > As in...
> > >
> > > <a norel="license" href="...">...</a>
> > >
> > > Or... you'd need a negative of the "license" token... maybe
> > > "nolicense" to use with the "rel" attribute... as in...
> > >
> > > <a rel="nolicense" href="...">...</a>
> > >
> > >
> > > See ya
>
>
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>
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