Creative Commons Includes GPL And LGPL Metadata

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."

Comments

Would be great for P2P

[mrdaveb]

Select the "must be licenced under CC" box, and then search for music and other stuff you can download guilt-free.
Not sure there would be many results to your search though, but it might catch on.

Re:limitations of CC

[afree87]

This problem has already been solved by the CC people, who thought of it when the issue of adding metadata to music came up.

So there's no problem, with MP3s at least.

Heh

[r00zky]

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