Creative Commons participates in Google Summer of Code™ and has accepted a proposal (see the abstract) of Hugo Dworak based on its description of a task to rewrite its now-defunct metadata validator. Asheesh Laroia has been assigned as the mentor of the project. The work began on May 26th, 2008 as per the project timeline. It is expected to be completed in twelve weeks. More details will be provided in the dedicated CC Wiki article and the progress will be weekly featured on this blog.

The project focuses on developing an on-line tool — free software written in Python — to validate digitally embedded Creative Commons licenses within files of different types. Files will be pasted directly to a form, identified by a URL, or uploaded by a user. The application will present the results in a human?readable fashion and notify the user if the means used to express the license terms are deprecated. *[URL]: Universal Resource Locator