Integration of Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons license provide content creators a straight forward way to communicate to the world what rights they wish to enforce on their work. There are a variety of licenses that range from Attribution (the most open) only to Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (the most restrictive). See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

We aim to give Free/Open Source Software users the ability to both assign licenses to newly created works (eg in GIMP, OpenOffice, F-Spot) and the ability to view licenses in downloaded content (eg in Banshee, Totem, Evince). This involves making modifications to various upstream applications and thus requires broad community support.