GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 349360
Creative Commons license metadata support
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:10:58 UTC
It would be nice if f-spot supports Creative Commons embedded licenses in EXIF metadata and tell the user that the current image is CC licensed. More info: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Embedding_Specifications http://creativecommons.org/technology/usingmarkup
The EXIF specification is reletively new but I'd like to hack on this when I get a chance.
Luke, any movement on this feature request of adding License metadata to image files? Creative Commons has developed a library which does all of the writing and reading of metadata for you. It is appropriately called liblicense and is in the repositories of Debian (and Ubuntu) and Fedora. There is a project page for it at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Liblicense with the code available from http://code.creativecommons.org/.
Created attachment 121548 [details] jpg with Artist name and License information More information: As of right now (0.5.0.3) f-spot supports the reading of license metadata in images. This is because f-spot just gives you all exif information and if the "Artist" or "Copyright" fields have anything in them, it will be displayed (example image attached). However, as f-spot is usually the first destination of images after they are taken, it would be nice if that information was editable by the user. It could be a simple right-click option named "Edit Image License" and then a simple dialog that let the user enter their name and select either Full Copyright or any of the 6 standard Creative Commons licenses (which is what Flickr does[1]). Of course it could have an option to "set these choices as my default." Then, using this information in the images to do other interesting actions (displaying only images with a specific license, displaying a license icon next to/on top of an image in the "browse" view[2], etc) would be more easily done. Is there any interest from the developer community to implement something like this? Greg [1] http://flickr.com/account/prefs/license/ (must be logged in to work) [2] example mockup: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image:Ll_nautilus_emblem.png
(Sorry for the bugmail spam) I just realized that simply editing the EXIF metadata isn't really sufficient for this issue. Other applications (see: EOG) expect this type of metadata to be embedded using XMP standards. For information on what embedding copyright information using XMP looks like see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP Thus, for maximum interoperability between other applications which might choose one metadata location over another (EXIF vs XMP) it would probably be best to embed this information into both at the same time. Embedding the XMP data can be done using liblicense from Creative Commons right now (referenced in above comment, link: http://creativecommons.org/projects/Liblicense).
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