Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which provides free open content licenses to the world.

Creative Commons licensing will be integrated throughout the OLPC project:

• Contributions to the OLPC project wiki are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
• Creative Commons licensing functionality for the XO laptops is currently under development:
  • Liblicense, a new software library developed by Creative Commons, allows users of the laptops to attach Creative Commons licenses to the media produced on the XO.
  • Sugar Licensing Activity, an interactive licensing module (currently in beta) that allows laptop users to decide upon a license for the content they create.
  • Sharing Creative Works, comic book style documentation designed to educate children and parents about Creative Commons' licensing options
• Creative Commons and OLPC will continue to work together on open content as part of CC’s LiveContent initiative

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.

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.

External Links

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