Creative Commons liblicense to be integrated in desktop programs

"Creative Commons (CC) cares about licensing. It has drafted and shared its own suite of licenses for artistic works catering to a wide range of needs, advocated license awareness, and contributed to projects that make both finding and publishing CC-licensed works simpler. Now it is seeking to make licensing enlightenment an everyday part of desktop computer usage with liblicense."

"CC Community Developer Jon Phillips and liblicense maintainer Asheesh Laroia describe the goal of the project as adding license assignment to the "pre-flight check" users perform when creating any sort of document. As sharing photos, music, and written words becomes easier, it becomes more important to think about deciding on a license at the point of creation, so that that decision can be passed along with the file itself, rather than be repeated for every copy of the file made." -- Read more