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Asheesh Laroia

Creative Commons

Asheesh joined Creative Commons as a software engineer in July, 2007.

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4:30pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

Rights on the Desktop with liblicense

Emerging Topics
Location: F150

Nathan Yergler (Creative Commons), Asheesh Laroia (Creative Commons) Moderated by: Nathan Yergler

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liblicense provides a small, lightweight library for implementing the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) in applications. This talk will provide an overview of ccREL, liblicense, and how it is being used to integrate with Ubuntu applications. Embedded license metadata support for applications such as Eye of Gnome and Rhythmbox will be demonstrated, with source code. Read more.