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Creative Commons Licenses

1 Jul 17, 2004 11:24    

Hi,

Has b2evo thought about adding an administrative function that adds the Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org license of the user's choice to each of their posts?

Some other proprietary blogging software, whose name seems to have moved from my memory as I type, has this function built in for the blog as a whole. That's not bad, but people can just add a sidebar div and cut and paste that in if that's all they want.

What I'm talking about is taking advantage of b2evo's killer cross-blog and group-blog capabilities while recognizing that different authors might want to make different licensing choices.

Here's my ideal system:[list]Each user can choose their personal "default" creative commons license from somewhere in the admin pages.[/list:u][list]Integrated into the new post page would be an indicator of their default licensing choice, but there would be the option to choose a different license for that particular post only.[/list:u][list]A small indicator (like where the locale flag image goes) would indicate the license of each post[/list:u][list]This process would auto-generate a users page that would list all posts by users or at least all licensing choices by user[/list:u]
Let me explain that last one with an example. A page would be auto-generated (and perhaps linked to on the sidebar) that might look like this:

Brian
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (35 posts) <--- Something there would be a link to a page of all Brian's posts of that category.

Joe
Attribution-NonCommercial (22 posts)
Attribution-ShareAlike (12 posts)
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (44 posts)

etc. for each user.

Wouldn't something like this be really cool? b2evo is already the best Free Software blogging software. It should take the lead in creative commons licensing support too! Even without the auto-generated user page, at least building the licensing choice into the New Post page would be great.

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2 Jul 25, 2004 01:52

yes it s a good idea

i think adding creatives commons on my site
but if b2evo by default was fonctional with the creatives commons it will be perfect.

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3 Jan 05, 2005 13:49

I'm using a Creative Commons License for my b2evo blog, and I think that that would be a very good idea!

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4 Jan 07, 2005 07:36

This sounds like a good idea.

I'd be happy to code this up as a plugin, unless someone else has volunteered.

My idea so far is to add a Toolbar that would let you click on a CC license (or select it from a popup menu). This would add a little image and CC metadata to the post. Some sort of message like "This post is covered by the CC BY: license" or whatever. (I'd follow their guidelines on the CC site, but I'm too tired right now)

This way, it would be completely out of the DB (though maybe could end up there for the next release if people like it???). You lose the user defaults this way, but I think its a decent trade-off.

Does this sound good? I'd be up for playing with it, though it'll be a couple days before I can finish it. Let me know!

P.S. I have no idea now other blogs actually implement this, and I don't care to look. (The whole tired thing I mentioned before) So if they have a great and easy method, please fill me in! :)

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5 Jan 07, 2005 20:10

Sounds good daniel ;)

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6 Jan 10, 2005 23:01

I haven't started coding yet (finishing a big project so I can afford heat in these cold Michigan winters), but I've been planning. Now I could use some input.

Current thought: make it a toolbar plugin. Have the licenses be selected in a popup menu, a checkbox to display icons, and maybe another option or two.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ shows the licenses, as well as the icons I'd like to use. Maybe make them smaller, maybe use [url=http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?lang=en_GB&license_code=by&stylesheet=%2fincludes%2fccliss%2ecss&partner_icon_url=%2fimages%2fremote_logo%2egif]this style[/url] instead.

How does this sound?

Some other questions:

Show Version 1 licenses?
Show other licenses ([url=http://creativecommons.org/license/sampling?format=audio]audio[/url], other countries)?

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8 Jan 12, 2005 08:41

Ok, here's what I have.

[url=http://homepage.mac.com/danielmorrison/b2e/cc_plugin.zip]A CC Plugin![/url]

It is a toolbar plugin aimed at adding a Creative Commons License to each post, not your blogs, skins, or anything else.

It adds the code to the bottom of your post, but that's the only way to keep this a plugin not a hack. :)

You select a License, then you have a choice between 3 display options:

Text Only
This just says "This post is licensed under a Creative Commons License." with a link to your license.

Standard
This adds the common "Some Rights Reserved" rectangular image to the text.
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif
(or "No Rights Reserved" if you choose Public Domain)

Symbols
This exchanges the standard image for the cool circular symbols, that fit your License.
http://creativecommons.org/icon/by/standard.gif http://creativecommons.org/icon/nc/standard.gif http://creativecommons.org/icon/nd/standard.gif http://creativecommons.org/icon/sa/standard.gif

I'd love to hear suggestions for other Display Options!

INSTALL:
Unzip the file and you will find a php file and a directory called "cc_license". Place them both inside your blogs/plugins/toolbars/ directory. Then add the plugin you [url=http://b2evolution.net/man/2004/06/16/plugins_on_off_howto]normally would,/url].

NOTES:
This has been tested against 0.9.0.10 only so far.

Creative Commons' RDF metadata is not being used (yet). The b2e parser was giving me crap. I'll add it later, when I figure it out.

Other than that, consider this beta code. Tell me your problems, ideas, etc.!

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