Date

$LastChangedDate$

Version

$LastChangedRevision$

Author

Nathan R. Yergler <nathan@creativecommons.org>

Contributors

Will Frank

Organization

Creative Commons

Copyright

2005-2007, Creative Commons; licensed to the public under the MIT license.

The license_xsl project provides tools for describing Creative Commons licenses and metadata in a language-independent format. In particular it contains the following:

• an XML file describing all licenses and jurisdictions (licenses.xml)
• a tool for manipulating that file (./bin/license)
• an XML file describing the "questions" which need to be answered to generate a license (questions.xml)
• a set of XSLT transforms to take answers and generate license information (chooselicense.xsl, et al)
• a set of tools for internationalizing the transforms (i18n)

This package uses zc.buildout to manage dependencies and generate scripts for the maintenance tools. To retrieve the dependencies and build the scripts, the buildout must first be bootstrapped, and then executed:

$ python boostrap/bootstrap.py
$ ./bin/buildout 

After running buildout, wrapper scripts for the license_xsl manipulation tools will be placed in the bin directory.

The licensexsl_tools package provides two scripts: licenses and makerdf. Buildout also generates a wrapper for makerdf, makerdf.sh.

Maintenance script for licenses.xml; adds licenses, versions and jurisdictions as needed.

usage: %prog [options] [<version>] [<jurisdiction>]

Maintenance script for helping with license and jurisdiction descriptions contained in licenses.xml.

Example usages:

• Adding a jurisdiction:

  $ ./bin/license --info --lang=en,en-YA --uri=http://ya.cc.org ya

• Adding a license version to the standard six types:

  $ ./bin/license ya 3.0

• Adding a license version for a specific license code:

  $ ./bin/license --codes=by,by-nc ya 3.1

• Launching a jurisdiction:

  $ ./bin/license --info --launched ya

makerdf retrieves all published licenses and generates a single RDF file containing license metadata. For a complete list of options run:

$ ./bin/makerdf --help

makerdf.sh is a wrapper script for makerdf, intended to be used when the license_xsl package is checked out as part of the CcLicense Zope product. It regenerates licenses.rdf, moving the existing version to licenses.rdf.old if it exists.