Re: Copyright, licensing, and feeds

[James M Snell]

Eric Scheid wrote:
> On 9/6/06 4:23 PM, "Karl Dubost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> 1. Feed composed with multiple sources with different licenses.
>>   When a feed aggregator creates a feed from different sources
>> (feeds) with different licenses, what should be the license of the
>> resulting feed?
>>
>>   feed (license ???)
>>      entry (license A) from feed X
>>      entry (license B) from feed Y
>>      entry (license B) from feed Y
>>      entry (license A) from feed X
>>      entry (license C) from feed Z
> 
> either no license element at the the feed level (since every entry has their
> own license), or maybe a license that refers to the collection (eg. you
> could expose a license for your Top 10 List without necessarily claiming any
> license for the 10 items in the list).
> 

In the Feed License Draft, feed's a licensed independently of their
contained entries.  There is no interaction between the licenses.

- James