That sounds good, Nathan. I prefer the strings to come from the rdf  
and xml files for our purposes.  So everything you said makes sense to  
me.

Thanks.

Jim


On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Nathan Yergler wrote:

> Hi Jim --
>
> Just to summarize, I think we've discussed that it'd be helpful to
> have the following items as packaged releases (at the very least as
> tags):
>
> * translation strings (po files from the i18n module in Subversion)
> * license metadata (currently sourced from the liblicense release)
> * chooser questions (questions.xml)
>
> With respect to the first (i18n), I'm not sure it makes much sense to
> do releases.  That is, things are committed to trunk directly from the
> translation system by our affiliates and we don't do any additional
> checking or QA on that (in theory the people doing the committing have
> already QA'd things).  Note that those strings then flow into the RDF,
> etc, although that's not as automated (yet).
>
> I've created a ticket for the latter two (since they'll be bundled
> together) in our tracking system --
> http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/issue186 -- and we'll being
> looking at that.
>
> With respect to the licensing, README in license_xsl says that the
> package is MIT licensed.
>
> Finally, note that you *can* find the RDF separate from liblicense in
> Subversion/git (in the license.rdf module).  I imagine git will be the
> one that "wins" eventually; right now it mirrors Subversion but has a
> few additional assertions that help us drive the license engine stack.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Jim Eng <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Nathan and Greg,
>>
>> This is a followup on some earlier messages.  I want to use  
>> information from
>> the file I found at this location:
>>
>> http://code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/license_xsl/trunk/questions.xml
>>
>> This contains the set of questions used in a license chooser.  I  
>> would like
>> to find this file (or a derivative containing all the same  
>> information in
>> another form such as RDF) in a release package or tag rather than  
>> in SVN
>> trunk.  That would help us keep it up to date as new translations  
>> are added
>> or corrections are made.
>>
>> I have a copy of that file in our SVN in a branch that is not yet  
>> on track
>> to be included in a release of our code, but I would like to move  
>> it into
>> trunk within the next few weeks.  My hope is that I can add a  
>> readme file to
>> the directory containing that file and include information about  
>> the source
>> of that file and any conditions for its use. An alternative would  
>> be to
>> embed that information in the file itself in comments.  I suspect  
>> the terms
>> would vary depending on whether I get the file from a released  
>> Creative
>> Commons product or from your SVN.  Can you advise me on that?
>>
>> I would also like to include the RDF for CC licenses in a future  
>> release.  I
>> am getting these from the licenses directory of liblicense-0.8.1  
>> retrieved
>> from a mirror of:
>>
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cctools/liblicense-0.8.1.tar.gz
>>
>> My plan would be to update that set of licenses as you make new  
>> versions
>> available. Again I'd appreciate advice about any problems that  
>> might arise.
>>
>> As we discussed in earlier emails, it would be really cool if the CC
>> metadata resources mentioned above were released as a package  
>> separate from
>> your software releases but until that happens, I am hoping to work  
>> out a way
>> that I can reuse these items and keep them up to date.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>
>

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