Gideon Marken: Web Technologist - Electronic Artist


	Recent Blog Posts: 12/14/2007 - ArtistServer News and a new site: FreeMusicLicensing.com 09/18/2007 - AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie Ringtones 09/11/2007 - Running LightTPD and PHP on Windows 09/06/2007 - Compete.com -vs- Alexa.com - Comparing Website Rank 08/29/2007 - HostMySite.com Limits ColdFusion, Does Not Tell Customers 08/14/2007 - New Song: Chocolate Rain - Sonic Remix 08/03/2007 - If You Use Open Source, Leave the License and Credit 07/31/2007 - Add Links to Profiles on MySpace, Facebook, and More 07/23/2007 - SocialNetwork.in API Promotes Cross Site Networking 07/22/2007 - AddToBookmarks.com Script Updated to Version 1.1


	Mobile - Web - Media Friday, Aug 03, 2007 8:49:17 AM If You Use Open Source, Leave the License and Credit What percentage of Web developers and site owners are cool? Have you ever stopped to wonder? We're talking about a population that designs and builds the foundation of our digital existence. The people who provide the sites, the services, and the means for everyone to explore and experience this "World Wide Web." Personally, I've judged it all based on my experiences, which have mostly been very positive. Fortunately, I got on this train back in 1996, back when the Web was battleship grey, and developers were hard to come by. Eleven years later, I'm now in a sea of developers and site owners, and yes, my experiences have remained very positive... until recently. About two weeks ago, I rolled out a new version of my AddToBookmarks script, which is an easy to use solution for adding social bookmarking buttons to your pages or posts. I released the script with an open source license, and some credit/info in the files. I wanted to see how many sites were using my script, so I do a search at Google that would locate my script: "Del.icio.us Digg Google Spurl Blink Furl Simpy Y! MyWeb," out of the first 25 results, 16 of these sites had stripped out the license and my credit/info from the script, and only 9 had left the license and credit. Wow - Apparently, only 36% of developers and site owners are cool?!? Actually, that's not true, as you can't conclude much from a 25 person study, although, these results are not very positive. It seems a lot of people either don't understand or don't care about open source licensing and giving people credit. It's all very simple, if you use someone's work, and that work has a license and/or credit listed, you leave it. If you create a variation of the item, most likely the license and credit must stay with the variation. Here are the results from my search: Has License/Credit: 9 http://www.israelnewsradio.net/the-marty-roberts-show.html http://www.watch4jobs.co.uk/blog/ http://www.brazil-travelnet.com/index.html http://www.soccer-game-information.com/soccer-video.html http://news.stepforth.com/blog/ http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/weblog/weblog.html http://www.evolvingdoor.ca/zodiac/signsindex.htm http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?002404.html http://www.leadership-tools.com/advanced-site-search.html Removed License/Credit: 16 http://forums.seochat.com/seo-scripts-10/coldfusion-optimization-3214.html http://starrynightlights.com/blog/?m=200604 http://www.thegnuru.com/ http://ngeorgia.com/blueandgray/ http://www.europeanexperts.org/disp_zone.html?id_zone=33&lazone=VBA+(Office) http://www.setfocus.com/aboutdotnet/default.aspx http://rdoctor.com/symptoms_disease/content/blogsection/11/9/ http://www.roseindia.net/tutorialhelp/comment/6225 http://www.evictstop.com/bisf-mortgages.shtml http://forums.devshed.com/business-news-124/google-to-bid-for-u-s-airwaves-if-condition-added-461312.html http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP.NET/Working-with-Parameters-with-Crystal-Reports-and-ASP-NET-2-0/ http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184406031 http://forums.devarticles.com/technology-news-57/effect-of-google-cookie-policy-unclear-ap-107583.html http://www.scripts.com/remotely-hosted-scripts/web-traffic-scripts/free-google-pagerank-checker-webmaster-tools/ http://starrynightlights.com/blog/?p=19 http://www.vakaruge.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=173 1 Comments \| Post Comment license open source ADD TO: Blink Del.icio.us Digg Furl Google Simpy Spurl Y! MyWeb Permalink: ArtistServer Tuesday, Jul 12, 2005 11:38:43 AM Creative Commons License Integration An announcement for ArtistServer Artists and Members... Some of you may be familiar with the Creative Commons licensing scheme that was launched as an alternate to the very limiting "Copyright" scheme that has been in place for so long. More Info: http://creativecommons.org/ Here are the available License descriptions: http://creativecommons.org/license/meet-the-licenses ============== For ArtistServer, we'll start with songs, but eventually, all forms of content you upload to the site will allow you to assign a license to the content. I also hope to support the embeding of the selected license into files to - but that's a bit more work for me and the server for now. In addition to the 6 CC licenses, we'll also have 2 additional options for your content: 1. Copyright - the old standard - for those who wish to limit the distribution of your content, etc 2. Public Domain - for those who do not wish to retain any rights to their content. This will give you 8 options to select from - but don't worry - the selection will be very easy. ================= Creative Commons comes with a button - but since they are so big, we won't be using them on ArtistServer - here's an example: http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png I'm not 100% sure yet, but I may create tiny icons to display next to the content - otherwise, we'll just have text w/ links to the actual license. ================= VERY IMPORTANT All songs on the site that are set for "Download" have already been set to use this license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs INFO: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ All songs on the site that were NOT set for download were set to use this license: copyright - no distribution, sharing, etc ================= Once the License tools are setup in the MyAccount area, you'll be able to go in and edit the license settings for all your songs. Until then - you may want to look over what the options are and maybe discuss them with each other. ================= If you have any questions - just ask! Post Comment ArtistServer CC Creative Commons license ADD TO: Blink Del.icio.us Digg Furl Google Simpy Spurl Y! MyWeb Permalink:

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Name: Gideon Marken
Location: San Diego, California
Personal: 38/m/married
Occupation: Contract Web Developer
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Education: BS in Psych, MS in Ed Tech
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Music: Sonic Wallpaper, Turbogeek
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