License field for Cleaver presentations

[jdan]

Received an email today with the following:

In the Author part, at the beginning of the document, an item license will be great. I would like to indicate that my presentation is Creative Commons licensed for example.

I regrettably know very little about item licensing, but I'm thinking users could specify a license in the header which would put a tasteful badge in the left corner or the rendered slideshow.

Usually I direct these kinds of requests and suggest that users create their own layout, but I wonder if this feature is important enough to merit its own setting.

[jfoucry]

Hello,

I'm Jacques and I am the person who send the original mail to Jordan.

I know that the right behaviors is DIY and bring back to the project but I have absolutely no knowledge about js. It will take time for me to learn the language, add it to a fork and bring back to the main stream.

I' m sure there is more capable people around cleaver.

Jacques

[ryphill]

I don't think a license field is really necessary. If someone wants to have the license in their slideshow, they should be putting it as a part of their presentation.

[jfoucry]

It will be easier for user with a specific setting. It'a only my point of view. :-)

[jdan]

I'm going to close this because there are currently 2 ways to place a content license in your presentation.

1) Place some string on your first slide, for example:

# My presentation
## Some subtitle

[CC Licensed](some link)

2) Specify your own layout template in the header

layout: license_template.mustache

Which contains the license information.

I'm a little strict when it comes to added "options" like this because I want cleaver to be (a) easy to use (b) easily customizable and (c) easy to understand. Point C is difficult to balance with A and B.

But thank you for the well-thought-out suggestion.

[jfoucry]

Ok. I understand your way to be strict.

Thanks to look at my idea.

Jacques