On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: > +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].
+1 too but please point me to the part of the FAQ which says this, as I am not seeing it (probably related to just waking up, but still) >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
