license

 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 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  on that link.

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

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

 

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

Other Examples

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

&#60;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"&#62; &#60;img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /&#62; &#60;/a&#62;&#60;br /&#62; This work is licensed under a &#60;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"&#62;Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License&#60;/a&#62;.

Sessions
Related sessions at IndieWebCamps:
 * 2019/Amsterdam/licensing
 * 2017/Nuremberg/law