linking to a license with html

Hi,
i just read the article about how to markup links so point to a license. 
Sugestion was <link rel="license" .../> resp. <a rel="license" ...>...</a>.

I then read that this would only make a statement about the resource beeing 
linked to, but no statement about the resource this link is residing. This is 
correct, but no problem: Besides the "rel" attribute there also is the "rev" 
attribute you could use. So <link rel="license" rev="????" .../> would do the 
trick to make a statement that the license, where this link points to, is 
indeed a license for this resource.

Unfortunately my english is not that good to find the proper word to use here. 
I know that the link target is a "license", but i do not know how to name the 
reverse. So if any native english speaker would know the right word...

Regards
Siegfried

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Re: linking to a license with html

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:06 +0100, Siegfried Gipp wrote:
> Hi,
> i just read the article about how to markup links so point to a license. 
> Sugestion was <link rel="license" .../> resp. <a rel="license" ...>...</a>.
> 
> I then read that this would only make a statement about the resource beeing 
> linked to, but no statement about the resource this link is residing. This is 
> correct, but no problem: Besides the "rel" attribute there also is the "rev" 
> attribute you could use. So <link rel="license" rev="????" .../> would do the 
> trick to make a statement that the license, where this link points to, is 
> indeed a license for this resource.
> 
> Unfortunately my english is not that good to find the proper word to use here. 
> I know that the link target is a "license", but i do not know how to name the 
> reverse. So if any native english speaker would know the right word...

See
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-primer#id0x0d0980d0

So <a about="{subject url}" rel="license" href="{license url}">...</a>

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Am Donnerstag 23 Februar 2006 18:00 schrieb 
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> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-primer#id0x0d0980d0
>
> So <a about="{subject url}" rel="license" href="{license url}">...</a>

No :) I don't know of any defined (x)html attribute named "about". But i do 
know that there is an attribute named "rev". So something like:
<a href="{license url}" rel="license" rev="{this license where this link 
points to is a license for this resource here where this link is 
found}">...</a>

Or, the same with the "link" element:
<link href="{license url}" rel="license" rev="{this license where this link 
points to is a license for this resource here where this link is 
found}">...</a>

Just replace this awful long sentence with something else. If the resource the 
link resides would be a person, the right word might be "lecensee". For a web 
page this might be something like "licensed resource". I just think it has to 
be one word, not two. But the correct attribute is "rev".

Regards
Siegfried

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On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 21:41 +0100, Siegfried Gipp wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 23 Februar 2006 18:00 schrieb 
> cc-metadata-request@...:
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-primer#id0x0d0980d0
> >
> > So <a about="{subject url}" rel="license" href="{license url}">...</a>
> 
> No :) I don't know of any defined (x)html attribute named "about".

It is part of XHTML2.  I know that is problematic. :)

> But i do 
> know that there is an attribute named "rev". So something like:
> <a href="{license url}" rel="license" rev="{this license where this link 
> points to is a license for this resource here where this link is 
> found}">...</a>
> 
> Or, the same with the "link" element:
> <link href="{license url}" rel="license" rev="{this license where this link 
> points to is a license for this resource here where this link is 
> found}">...</a>
> 
> Just replace this awful long sentence with something else. If the resource the 
> link resides would be a person, the right word might be "lecensee". For a web 
> page this might be something like "licensed resource". I just think it has to 
> be one word, not two. But the correct attribute is "rev".

No, rev does not work.  It is just like rel, only reversed, ie., it is a
predicate.  See http://microformats.org/blog/2005/12/01/rel-vs-rev/