- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:53:44 +0000
- To: "Thomas Roessler" <tlr@w3.org>
- Cc: "Kai Hendry" <hendry@aplix.co.jp>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote: > On 24 Nov 2008, at 22:46, Marcos Caceres wrote: > >>> Subject: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#the-license >>> Having a optional URI or href whatever for the license would be good. >>> Seems to be some inconsistency between src, uri, url, href btw that >>> you can easily pick up in the relaxng scheme. >> >> I'm not comfortable with adding an optional URI. It implies that a >> license could change on the web without the user knowing about it. >> That really concerns me. > > It's not that uncommon to use URIs to identify (well-known) licenses, see, > e.g., > > http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/SUBM-ccREL-20080501/ > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4946.txt > > I'd suggest that it's a good idea to enable this pattern for widgets; the > issue that you point out (licenses changing after the fact) is one that's > being dealt with on a social level. > Grumble, grumble... alright, I'll add it... but I still don't like it :) -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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