With the Validator up and running, I’ve been thinking more about cclicense.py, and how it could be used on it’s own. My conclusion is that in an effort to make it handle all the RDF requirements of the Validator, I’ve pretty much screwed it up for use on it’s own. Not that it [...]
I’ve just posted an updated version of ccLicense.py, which I’ve dubbed 0.2. You can find it here . Changes are largely related to the way it extracts work and agent information from the license RDF. The interfaces have been more generalized to accomodate nested RDF structures. However, 0.2 is a step [...]
Shortly after announcing the validator to the cc-metadata list this morning, I had my first bug report. In my defense, it’s not even a bug in my code, per say, but some invalid metadata. However, there were several discoveries I made that I’m working to roll into both ccValidator and ccLicense.py. In [...]
As part of my effort to complete the Creative Commons web validation service, I inadvertently addressed another of their challenges: creating a language (in this case Python, of course) API for manipulating licenses. So with muted fanfare, here’s version 0.1 of cclicense.py. It currently supports parsing a license and extracting of permissions, restrictions, [...]
