[Bug 8353] How could a browser or even a careful reader know that the licence would applies to the photo only, and not just to the paragraph bewlo the figure? The license link should apply to all the content of its container, here the "body element", so it should be

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8353


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-01-05 08:53:54 ---
The browser couldn't know. If you need machine-readable license information,
use the Works microdata vocabulary, or hLicense, or ccREL with RDF or RDFa, or
something like that.

The spec describes what rel=license means in practice on the Web today. We
can't change the definition.

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: spec is intended to match implemented practice


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Received on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:53:58 UTC