Content licensing

[greatislander]

Prerequisites

• Can you reproduce the behavior you wish to address with all other plugins deactivated?
• Are you running the latest version of Pressbooks and the latest version of WordPress?
• Are you experiencing this issue with one of our built-in root or book themes?
• Did you perform a cursory search to see if your bug or enhancement is already listed?

Description

Licensing (Creative Commons flavours, public domain, etc.) should available for all content: books, parts/chapters/front matter/back matter, and media. See also: #108, #195, https://github.com/lumenlearning/candela-citation

Steps to Reproduce

Not applicable.

System Information

Pressbooks: 4.0.0-dev
WordPress: 4.8.0
PHP: 7.1

[hughmcguire]

Hi Ned, here is a detailed spreadsheet (conceptual & then detailed) of how the licensing module in general should work:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMFuNUF9fRFBEN8VlfPasXFp2y6tvZyuTfEAa7T02eE/edit

[zwhnz]

Testing Notes

All exports:

Custom/freeform notice should appear after the auto license on copyright page.

EPUB:

Section license does not display correctly at end of section & I have had two different results. With same license, on one chapter the image is missing but text is present, in other chapter image is missing and text cuts off at author.

Check an EPUB export here: https://testbook.textopress.com/wp-admin/

MOBI:

CC license image does not appear at end of section (copyright page ok).

PDF:

Section license appears correctly at end of section, but could benefit from some styling. Is this easy to do? I could write up a snippet.

Webbook:

Freeform/custom copyright notice does not appear in footer, just the auto license text.

[greatislander]

@connerbw Can you fix as many of these issues as you can? I think the PDF styling will be the sticking point so you can leave that for me.

[dac514]

TODO: PDF: Section license appears correctly at end of section, but could benefit from some styling. Is this easy to do? I could write up a snippet.

[greatislander]

@zwhpressbooks This should be all fixed except for the PDF styling which I'll check tomorrow.

[apurvaashok]

Testing Notes

All exports:

Custom/freeform notice appears after the auto license on copyright page.

EPUB:

Section license displays correctly at end of section.

MOBI:

CC license image appears at end of section. However, the author name is linked to the corresponding section on the Pressbooks webbook. Is this the desired behaviour?

Check an export here: https://apurvatestbook.textopress.com/wp-admin/

PDF:

Still waiting on styling.

Webbook:

Freeform/custom copyright notice appears in footer, below the chapter/book-level license.

[dac514]

After a week of hanging out at the cottage, then coming back to this issue, it feels rough around the edges.

TODO: PDF styling, can we improve Epub end of section with a line break or something, MOBI author name link.

Wait until @zwhpressbooks is back from vacation to discuss?

[greatislander]

I've added default styles for PDF and EPUB:

text-align: center;
font-size: 0.8em;
font-style: italic;
margin-top: 2em;

Also removed the links to webbook in other formats.

[zwhnz]

Testing Notes

• Author name still linked to webbook in both global and section licenses (PDF and ebook)
• License image in MOBI is pretty small (don't know if we can do anything about that)
  Note: ignore the link in place of the author name, I had the field blank accidentally!

• Image and text are very close together in EPUB (again, don't know if we can do anything)

[greatislander]

• The author name link should be there in the webbook, I think. At least until we have author profile pages. See: https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/get-permission/
• I will add a bit more spacing to the image for EPUB and try to force it to be a specific size in MOBI

[greatislander]

Back to you!

[zwhnz]

EPUB spacing is much better, but image is still small in MOBI.

[greatislander]

@zwhpressbooks I think MOBI image is fixed now, can you confirm?