license

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license is terms under which you are allowed to (re)use a piece of work; in the context of the IndieWeb, for source code such as in open source projects, or content, like the IndieWeb wiki itself which has a specific Copyright.

How to

How to markup licensing of a post

You can markup the licensing of an entire post on its permalink page with rel-license. Link from the permalink page to the license you're using (e.g. Creative Commons) and put rel="license" on that link.

Brainstorming

Why and when

When reposting a post, it would be nice to know if you have permission for such repost. If you tell your server to repost something, it can check for a usable license and then either display the full post, or only link to it.
The above could also apply to reply context.
The above could also apply to displaying remote comments and likes.

Licensing specific things

There's no good current way to markup licenses for specific / individual posts in a feed like a composite stream.

Similarly, if you only want to license part of a post, there's no good current way to do that either.

Some possibilities:

Introduce a u-license property to h-entry that links to the license for that entry. This would replace rel-license, and provide more flexibility.
Have some separate specific license for the u-photo / u-video / u-audio in a post
- Or just use the same u-license that is there for the entire post

IndieWeb Examples

Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske links a license in the <head> of each blog post, e.g. http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/broken-plain-sight.htm:

<link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"/>
<link rel="license" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/rdf"/>

Jamie Tanna

Jamie Tanna defines two licenses per post:

Prose, for the post's written content (defaults to CC-BY-SA-NC-4.0)
Code, for any code snippets in the post (defaults to Apache-2.0)

Jamie wrote about changing the way he approach licensing on 2018-07-29 and 2019-09-28

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Other Examples

The Creative Commons License chooser provides an HTML snippet that includes rel="license"

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
  <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" />
</a><br />
This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.

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