Additional changes:

* Ported licenses will no longer claim unported licenses supersede them
* No, the absolute latest version of a license is not the one that
"replaces" the older version; it's the next version in line.

NRY

On 10/26/07, Nathan R. Yergler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is just a heads up to let everyone know that I'm working on
> regenerating the liblicense .rdf files.  The original files contain
> some serious errors and we need to get things regenerated.  In
> particular the following things are changing / going away:
>
> * No more dc:coverage; the assertion was a complete lie
> * No more dc:type == License; we have rdf:type for a reason, and
> "License" isn't a valid dc:type
> * Translations are no longer stored as elements of an rdf:Alt on
> dc:title, dc:description; they're mutliple assertions with the
> language annotated on the literal.  The semantics for rdf:Alt don't
> really match what we're trying to convey in these cases.
> * Devnations is no longer listed as being superceded by Attribution
> 3.0 Unported.
> * There is a new cc:jurisdiction predicate for ported licenses; the
> object is an rdf:resource pointing to the jurisdiction page @
> creativecommons.org (ie,
> http://creativecommons.org/international/br/).  Presumably additional
> jurisdiction metadata could live there at some point in the future
> [hand waving].
> * There will be a new "deprecated" predicate; exact form to be determined.
>
> I'm working on these changes in the nyergler-rdf-sanity branch
> (http://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cctools/liblicense/branches/nyergler-rdf-sanity/);
> I'm hoping to merge them back to the trunk early next week.
> Questions, feedback welcome.
>
> Nathan
>
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