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Creative Commons Includes GPL And LGPL Metadata

Posted by timothy on from the self-documenting dept.

TrentC writes "I was looking at the Creative Commons site this weekend, and was surprised to find, on their license generation page, entries (translated into Portuguese) in a sidebar for the GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License, including RDF blocks. Since CC is pushing for projects that can generate, validate, display and search for CC license metadata, how cool would it be to be able to do a Google search for GPL-licensed material, or a P2P network for MP3s released under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license? As an example, Nathan Yergler has released mozCC, a plugin for Mozilla and Firebird that allows you to view CC license information embedded in a webpage, and provides icons on the status bar displaying the CC license options."

5 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. Re:GPL Search Engine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    For some odd reason GPL software is always of 'better quality'.

    And if you visit SF and FM as suggested, you will quickly lose this thinking.

  2. Re:Hmm... by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and SCO calls "ours".

  3. Re:GPL and CC -- Can they co-exist? by idiotnot · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you distribute the source code of an improv jaz session?

    I believe that's a felony in most states. :-p

  4. Heh by r00zky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look at the different outputs in page 2 of the license generator:
    - Human readable
    - Lawyer readable
    - Machine readable

    Good to know lawyers aren't humans, i was starting to worry :P

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    I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
  5. Re:What good is this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which states exactly are members of the United States of Asia?