On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 15:32 +0200, Christoffer Holmstedt wrote:

My suggestion for GSoC 2013 is to use that library in Inkscape. There are both benefits and problems that comes with trying to use a library while it's still in alpha/prototype stages so what do you think about this?

1) Is this work of any interest?

Inkscape already supports the ability to put the license information in the file. It's in the File menu under Document Metadata. You can basically use Dublin Core to put a bunch of other information in there as well. It's stored in a proper namespace in the XML document.

I think there are two interesting problems that we don't solve well. The first is reading this data from external formats. We basically only support it for SVG. The second is dealing with imports. So if I've got my SVG document and I import data from another, and that has a conflicting license or one that puts restrictions on my document, we don't warn or notify in any way. It seems like we could protect artists from accidentally using another work incorrectly in that way.
Ted