+1 On 11/15/2011 08:37 PM, Johannes Weißl wrote: > Hello, > > this is a proposal to improve the situation for releases that are > available under a Creative Commons (CC) or other free license. > Currently, the license type is an attribute of a special Creative > Commons Licensed Download Relationship Type [1]. This is bad because: > > 1. It is currently not possible to set the license of a release that > can't be downloaded (e.g. CDs, download releases with dead / removed > links) > 2. The license is not an attribute of the download. If a release is > available under two different licenses from two different locations, it > is automatically dual-licensed and the user can pick his favorite > license independent from the download location [2]. > > I discussed this a while ago, and I think there was consensus on this: > > 1. Introduce a new License Relationship Type, which links a release to > an "official" URL of the license (e.g. > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/). This has the benefit > that exact versions of the license can be specified. > > 2. Obsolete the Creative Commons Licensed Download [1]. This can be done > by either placing a note "obsolete, do not use anymore", or by disabling > new additions of this AR. Existing relationships should be converted by > hand, or by a bot if possible (nikki wrote a script). > > 3. A drop-down list of some often used licenses (= license URLs) should > be added to the Free Download [3] and Paid Download [4] Relationship > Type. If a license is selected there, this results in two separate > edits: > - one for the pure download URL > - one for the license URL > This was suggested to make the process not more difficult as it was > before. > > > [1] > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Creative_Commons_Licensed_Download_Relationship_Type > [2] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ > [3] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Free_Download_Relationship_Type > [4] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Paid_Download_Relationship_Type > > > Initial discussion: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-1469 > Wiki page: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Improve_CC-license_links > Expiration date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:00:00 UTC > > > Greetings, > Johannes
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