James M Snell wrote:
Bob Wyman wrote:* Why did you choose the word "license" when Atom itself uses the word "rights" for a very similar (if not identical) concept?Because I specifically wanted to differentiate the two.
IIRC James' answer to a mail I wrote him about the very same issue, it is also to maintain consistency with the already established rel-license microformat <http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license>.
FWIW, the above page claims that "Rel-License is a simple, open, format for indicating content licenses which is embedable in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML." But using rel="license" on atom:link would have been, up to James' I-D, highly dubious, since that would have been equivalent to <http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/license> which is not yet registered.
Maybe we should tell the microformats.org people that Atom uses IRIs for its link relations, not bare names. (They would even benefit from it, since some experimental <http://microformats.org/relation/foo> relation would not require IANA registration.)
Regards, Andreas Sewe
