Re: [Tracker] Tracker & Creative Commons

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jaime Frutos Morales wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to this list, so first I would like to greet everybody and
> thank Jamie for his great piece of software.
>
> I'm interested in integrating Creative Commons licenses[1] into
> Tracker. I've read metadata spec[2] and I have some questions:
>
> 1. Are there other freedesktop's metadata specs apart from that?

Not that I know of.

> 2. This specification defines the following built-in classes:
>     - File
>     - Audio
>     - Doc
>     - Image
>
>     Are other classes like Video going to be included in this list?

possibly. There will also be non-file based classes for emails, contacts 
etc.

> 3. I've looking for a license field in all classes and I have just
> found "Image.Copyright" in the Image one. Do the rest of the classes
> have a license field? Is it going to be included?

Im afraid the only license field thats embedded in metadata as a 
standard is the Exif one for images. If you know of any others that 
embed them (like music stuff) then please let me know.

Not all images will have a copyright of course.





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