[OFL-discuss] [Openfontlibrary] Creative Commons style RDF and "Human Readable" versions of OFL?

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 03:03 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Open Font Library (OFLB) at www.openfontlibrary.org has a lively
>> discussion on its mailing list, as the project is starting to gather
>> stream, and the project is planning to use the Open Font License
>> (OFL).
>>
>> OFLB is using the CMS system "ccHost" developed by Creative Commons.
>>
>> To properly integrate the OFL into ccHost, OFLB will need to develop
>> Creative Commons style RDF and "Human Readable" versions of OFL.
>>
>> I hope this list will have some suggestions about how to most sensibly
>> proceed with that :-)

[...]

> So, we need something similar to OFL, along the above lines, using
> http://web.resource.org/cc/ as a guide for the permits and requires
> sections.
> 
> The license is the final way to state what the specifics entail, but
> licenses maybe be described with the above URL which explains the
> permits and requires elements.
> 
> Does this make sense? Dave, would you like to take a stab at creating
> the RDF to describe OFL? If you do, I will jump in afterwards (my brain
> is tired right now ;)
> 
> Jon

Hi Dave, Jon et al,

Here's an attempt at expressing the OFL in Creative Commons terms and
turning that into an html/RDF block:


<!-- SIL Open Font License -->

<a rel="license" href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL">
<img alt=" SIL Open Font License"
src="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/sites/nrsi/media/OFL_logo_rect_color.png"
border="0" align="middle"></a>

        <i> This font family is released under the </i>
<a rel="license" href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL">SIL Open Font License
</a>.

</!-- SIL Open Font License -->

<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
   <license
rdf:resource="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL/" />
   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Font" />
   <img alt="SIL Open Font License" src="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL"
border="0"></a> B

</Work>

<License rdf:about="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL">
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" />
   <requires
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/RenamingOfDerivatives" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/NoSellingByItself"
/>

</License>

</rdf:RDF>

What do you think?
Would something like that do the job?
You comments and patches are welcome.

We might change some of the urls and create dedicated pages for this.

The human readable bit would be:
permits Reproduction/Distribution/DerivativeWorks
requires Attribution/ShareAlike/RenamingOfDerivatives/NoSellingByItself


So how can I help you test this?

I guess we need little rounded icons for the extra permissions/requires
as well as a a little rounded OFL-cc icon.

Thanks again for your very useful work on ccHost!


-- 
Nicolas Spalinger
http://scripts.sil.org