In the current draft, license links *are* inherited.
Thomas Roessler wrote:
On 2007-01-14 20:04:12 +, David Powell wrote:
[snip]
Be that as it may -- the atom:rights element *is* inherited, and I'd
expect some major confusion if a atom:license element wasn't.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I disagree that feed elements apply
to the feed document and not the feed itself. I believe that both the
spirit and letter of the specification make it clear that feed
elements are metadata about the feed not the document, and the typical
behaviour of
On 1/14/07, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't just say
that the license extension inherits and
expect every implementation out there to implement that.
You'd need an Atom 2.0 to do that: either support for
must-understand (which was rejected from Atom 1.0),
or a special feed
On 1/14/07, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Atom doesn't
describe the processing model of Atom
documents explicitly enough for me to infer much about
the semantics of atom:source. ...
Needing to [use atom:source] is a good sign that you
are abusing feed elements to carry entry metadata
On 1/14/07, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that it is
important to distinguish between feeds
and feed documents, and this is why I think that feed
level inheritance of licenses should be dropped as it is
incompatible with Atom.
Inheritance can't be incompatible with Atom since
On 12/17/06, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What you can do however, is to specify that feed licenses apply to the
feed, and inherit to the entries in the feed. ... It
means that the license applies to all entries in that feed, not just
ones in that specific feed document. This is
In general, I think the latest version of James Snell's license ID [1] is
much better than earlier versions. I am particularly pleased that this draft
only speaks of license grants. I remain, as always, opposed to anything
that would encourage people to attempt to restrict the implied license to
Bob,
As always, thanks for the feedback. These are excellent suggestions.
I'll work them into the next draft.
- James
Bob Wyman wrote:
In general, I think the latest version of James Snell's license ID [1]
is much better than earlier versions. I am particularly pleased that
this draft only
