[5046] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Copyright notices. Was Re: Some general questions!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auerbach)
Mon Aug 1 16:44:49 1994
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 22:38:50 +0200
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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
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> > Copyright: Sherman Oakes, 1994
> > Copyright-terms: User may make up to 50 additional copies.
> > Copyright-cost: $0.10 per additional copy
> > Copyright-payment-to: Copyright Clearance Center
> >
> > These lines could be formally structured to make them comprehensible
> > to the user's viewer.
>
> This is what LINK is designed for: <LINK REL="copyright" HREF="...">.
Hmmm... I just took a look at the html documents and I can't find
anything that makes such a strong claim about either the meaning of
LINK or REL. If you have one handy, I'd appreciate it if you would
pass me a URL that might explain things a bit more clearly. Thanks.
(I was looking at the documents descending from
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTML.html)
Personally, I don't really care how it is expressed as long as the user
(or his/her/its) viewer can know that they are about to fetch copyrighted
documents or what happens if they make further copies of things that
they have fetched.
> If you need additional structure for the data you can define a standard
> data format and assign it a MIME type (e.g., application/x-copyright).
> Servers can then automatically detect client support for that format via
> the HTTP Accept: attributes.
I'd like it in the headers so the client can read it using a HEAD. It's nice
to know, or at least, to be able to know, before transfering the document
itself.
> Also, HTML LINK attributes can be exported to the HTTP header using WWW-Link:
You lost me on that one.
--karl--
