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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."

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  1. What good is this... by IchBinDasWalross · · Score: 0, Troll

    If Darl will have the GPL declared unconstitutional by the end of 2004?

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    Mod "Overrated" instead of replying "I disagree with you," you coward.