Steve O’Grady of RedMonk announced the Progressive License WordPress plugin at WordCamp San Francisco.
Progressive License is similar to other plugins that allow you to easily put a license on your content, but it brings a little twist: the ability to change the license applied to the content as the content ages.
Steve explains:
In my case, as an example, it applies a Creative Commons noncommercial license for the first 60 days - this one - and then retires the noncommercial provision after that time period, applying this license on everything older than 60 days.
This is the sort of thing that would have been really simple to build as a one-off custom plugin, but RedMonk instead chose to have my company, Crowd Favorite, build a solution that could be distributed back to the community.
This was an interesting user interaction challenge. We did our best to make this definition of the license time windows as user friendly as possible.
You can see we created a JavaScript based configuration page that does some date calculation to show when licenses would be applied to a post published today. Hopefully this does a good job communicating how the various licenses will be applied.
Progressive License ships with seven Creative Commons licenses included out of the box, but also gives you an interface to add additional licenses you would like to use.
Many thanks to RedMonk for bringing us in to build this plugin, and kudos to them for choosing to sponsor the creation of a robust solution for the rest of the WordPress community.
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Jonathan adds this Comment:
I guess you could also have a standard copyright notice that progresses into a public domain notice after the copyright term is up.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Christian Cabuay adds this Comment:
Thanks for making this. The Wordcamp Redmonk talk was my fav.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Jauhari adds this Comment:
This is really useful plugins
thanks
September 12th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Chess Teaching adds this Comment:
I left a reply some days ago, but it probably ended up in the spam.
I just mentioned that I liked the post, but now I am a little bit puzzled why akismet (?) flagged my comment as spam, because the comment didn’t even ontain a link.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Hector Herrera adds this Comment:
Thank you for introducing me to creative commons which until now had been a mystery to me.
Regards
Hector
September 13th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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September 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Vladimir adds this Comment:
Interesting this license comes now, as I am heaving a heated debate on WordPress licensing over on my blog http://www.prelovac.[...]implications
October 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Poojan Wagh adds this Comment:
Hi:
I tried installing this plugin. I can’t get it to insert a CC text/image anywhere. Does this happen only on new posts?
(I am using the very nicely designed Carrington-Blog theme).
October 28th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Poojan Wagh adds this Comment:
Nevermind: I figured it out; I didn’t set a default license
October 28th, 2008 at 9:23 am