The problem with specifying a per-feed default license is that there is currently no way of explicitly indicating that an entry does not have a license or that any particular entry should not inherit the default feed-level license.
- james Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2006-09-05 22:02:59 -0700, John Panzer wrote: > >> Here's my rationale: Atom has explicit support in the core RFC >> 4287 syntax for 'synthetic' feeds containing entries from >> multiple sources produced by multiple authors with different >> copyrights. RSS 2.0 doesn't have this core support. So in the >> case of Atom, the issue is a bit more urgent. So tackling the >> Atom case first makes sense to me. > > This is an important use case for having per-item license links. > > I do not see, however, how this is a reason against having per-feed > default licenses, consistent with atom:rights. Note, in particular, > that an aggregating party may very well be in a position to make > licensing assertions about all the entries in a feed. >
