Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which provides free open content licenses to the world. Creative Commons is also working on the OLPC projects as well to add licensing infrastructure to Sugar through the journal initially. Also, Creative Commons is dedicated to assisting in developing documentation and other assistance to push this project forward.

Projects

liblicense-sugar Integration

Creative Commons developed liblicense as a general c-based library for adding license support to OLPC, OpenMoko, Gnome, KDE, and other desktops. We also have built some integration code and have submitted this patch and the latest RPM of liblicense to https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3529 for adding liblicense to OLPC and also to the Journal to set both a default content license and also to set a per-journal-entry CC license.

Tracked Enhancements

• <trac>3529 Adding liblicense support to OLPC Sugar Journal</trac>
• <trac>3531 Add license search to the journal</trac>

Tracked Bugs

• None yet! Cool!

liblicense-sugar Customizations

Here is where customization of liblicense and OLPC integration will be discussed, and eventually possibly moved to its own page. liblicense-sugar is extensible. There will be a need in the future for possible customizations per jurisdiction, so what to keep that in mind and document as the need arises.

Licensing Activity

After initial liblicense-sugar integratoin, the idea of a licensing activity is to be explored for:

• explaining the six major Creative Commons licenses to children (comics, cartoons, etc)
• activity for setting the default license for an OLPC will be part of this too

License Setting in Control Panel

Initially OLPC was not going to have a control panel, but there is the possibility this will be needed in future versions of the device, so liblicense-sugar will possibly need to be integrated into this.

Licensing Curriculum

This is much more down the road, but hopefully an outcome from the Licensing Activity is to develop some curriculum. This is a lower priority than integration.

License for the OLPC Wiki

The text of this wiki is published under a Creative Commons Attribution license:

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode

Images, media, and uploaded files are each available under their own license; all compatible with our goals for sharing and reuse. See OLPC:License for details.

External Links

• Creative Commons
• OLPC Project Page on Creative Commons Wiki for earlier planning
• liblicense