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Creative Commons plugin for v230RC1
Dudes I totally rock!
Here you will find a shiny new plugin that allows bloggers to apply a creative commons license to their blog posts.
- You pick the license
- You pick the national port
- You pick how it looks
- By "you" I mean each blogger on a multi-blogger system
First let's talk about the bad news: SOME licenses installed with the original version(s) of this plugin will not upgrade properly. Basically if you selected a license in a post or blog with a language other than "English" the new plugin won't provide a license in the language your post or blog was written in.
Now let's talk about "national ports". The CC people figured out that having their licenses actually be legally valid in different countries matters, so what they did was work with countries to make it so. Therefore your license will be either specific to your country, or, "unported". If your country isn't listed in the national port drop-down then you pick 'Not Listed' to get the generic unported version of the license.
Hey did you know "public domain" isn't a license? It's an option in this plugin, but it is NOT a license because licenses, by design, are stating ownership. Public domain means no person or entity claims ownership. In this case when you apply PD to your work you are stating that you personally relinquish all control over content. Cool eh?
Download it, unzip it, upload it, install it via your Global Settings tab, then go to your Write tab to see this plugin do its thing. ... and read the readme!
UPDATE: The major bug Sergio found is now fixed.
Nederlands vertaling met inbegrip van
Thanks Foppe!
Tradução para Português do Brasil Incluída
Thanks Sérgio!
Добавлен Русский перевод!
Thanks Alex!
17 comments
Hi!Is there a way to config the url to the licence?
Now it link a inexistent page :-(
Thanks
Hi Sérgio! What settings did you select that led to a license for a page that doesn't exist? I tested quite a few different jurisdictions and licenses and styles and each time was successful in getting the license to properly display and link, but obviously no one can test everything yah? So if I know your circumstances I can see about fixing it.
Hi EdbIn this post (http://sergioflima.pro.br/blogs/index.php/sergio-blog/2008/02/04/tudo-que-voce-sempre-quis-saber-sobre-a-)
I am use the plugin (and I like it very much!)...but the link in the Creative Commons's icon and in the link to licence are point to: http://sergioflima.pro.br/blogs/skins/asevo/by-nc-sa/2.5/br/
That is a broken link!
I lost anything?
Excuse my poor english, I am a brazilian blogger :-)
I'll be damned - it's the worst bug in the world!!! ALL my posts with the CC License made with the new plugin fail. I'll take down the link until I get a fix in place, and will email you when a working version is available.Sérgio the bug is fixed so you can download it again and install it again. I think you will probably want to edit any posts with a license installed, but just edit and save: you won't have to do the actual license again. Will follow-up via email as well.Thanks for the bug report!!!
Hi Edb!Thanks!
I translate the message.po to pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), but after read them manual I don't understand well how compile the _global.php
I send to you one messages.po with my translate...
I wait that it will be usefull!
Thank very much again
I found a typo translating this plugin.Select the nation your blog in.
Phil
Thanks
Okay thanks. Just fixed it in the plugin, the translation pot, and both translations. Hey when you're done translating it to Russian let me know and I'll add it to the .zip file. Thanks!Okay I see where you are one step ahead of me and sent me the locale zip in the forums. 
Hi EdB!The Plugin is very cool....and with 3 language port it is "killer" :-)
Thanks!
I discovered a bug with the plugin, inserting the following license does not work (all other ones do though).Attribution, No Derivative Works, & Non-Commercial. The following line is inserted
but nothing shows up on the blog.
hmmm... I just tested the same license on a test blog I have and it rendered properly. Dunno what to do about this.I found the bug. In the version I have (downloaded from the link above), the string is not being generated correctly for that license.The generated string has the license as: by-nd-nc, but it should be by-nc-nd. I replaced all the instances of by-nd-nc in the file _creativecommons.plugin.php and then everything worked as expected. I did notice that in the 1.0 and 2.0 versions of the license there are files called cc-nd-nc.php so the bug would not be noticed for anyone using those license nations, but for 3.0 ones it would not work.
Good catch Icon. I have no idea why it rendered for me, but that bug just died with v2.0.4 (available now at an internet near you). Thanks!
I get the following error:Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in plugins/creativecommons_plugin/_creativecommons.plugin.php on line 586
Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in plugins/creativecommons_plugin/_creativecommons.plugin.php on line 589
Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in plugins/creativecommons_plugin/_creativecommons.plugin.php on line 592
Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in plugins/creativecommons_plugin/_creativecommons.plugin.php on line 596
Hi,a few questions:
- If i don't add a creative commons license the plugin creates an error, I have to deactivate it. It should not crash if there is no license it can render
- What about Version 3 of cc ? I only am able to add Version 2 licensees with the select box.
Thanks,
Bodo
Hi Bodo. Try changing the "apply rendering" on the plugin's settings page to 'lazy' - it might help with the crashing issue.As to v3 licenses, that depends entirely on what national port you selected. The CC page for Germany has 2.0 licenses, but other countries have 2.5 and others have 3.0. The Japanese get 2.1 for some reason. That is beyond my control - I just set 'em they way the CC License people say they are.