Live License-Friendly with liblicense | Linux Today

Live License-Friendly with liblicense

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 31, 2007

“Creative Commons (CC) cares about licensing. It has drafted and
shared its own suite of licenses for artistic works catering to a
wide range of needs, advocated license awareness, and contributed
to projects that make both finding and publishing CC-licensed works
simpler. Now it is seeking to make licensing enlightenment an
everyday part of desktop computer usage with liblicense.

“Liblicense is cross-platform, portable C library that allows
developers to make applications “license-aware” with respect to
data files. An app can check to see if a file has a license
attached or embedded, and can enable the user to choose and attach
a license in friendly, readable form. A CC project, liblicense is
naturally focused on the CC licenses for creative works, but the
idea has value for all sorts of data, and perhaps even source
code…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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