LibccLicense

Purpose

To provide a generic interface to the CC license data, license choice data and license choice logic.

Audience

Application developers who wish to choose and/or verify CC licenses.

Implementation

This library will be implemented in C to provide maximum portability.

Interface

• Data accessors.
  • get_locale(uri)
  • get_jurisdiction(uri)
  • get_name(uri)
  • get_version(uri)
  • is_sa(uri)
  • is_by(uri)
  • is_nc(uri)
  • is_nd(uri)
  • is_sampling(uri)
  • get_notification(uri[,url])

• Data verification.
  • verify_uri(uri)
  • verify_url(uri,url)

• License chooser (return uris)
  • get_license(sa,nc,nd) (Raise error upon simultaneous choice of sa and nd.)
  • get_license_options(locale)
  • get_sampling(nc)
  • get_sampling_options(locale)

Data Structure

• Data Types (informal)
  • uri
  • name
  • notification
  • deed
  • sampling

Bindings

• Python

Uses

libccLicense system implementation guidelines

• Gnome
• KDE
• OpenMoko
• Sugar (OLPC)