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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files?
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:31:35
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr_j_qO1AEuS2LZTGWKc+50eGndM0cEyyaei4i2v3gabsg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files? by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 > I always wondered why we are using such bulky names like
3 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 for the Creative Commons licenses,
4 > instead of CC-BY-SA-2.5 like everyone else. The latter also used by
5 > our documentation pages and is the name in the SPDX license list [1],
6 >
7 > So, while in general I'm against renaming of licenses (e.g., it would
8 > be pointless to rename our GPL-2 to GPL-2.0 in order to conform to the
9 > SPDX list), I think that in this case we should get rid of these long
10 > names which unnecessarily clutter the output of various tools.
11
12 ask for forgiveness, not permission ;)
13
14 -A
15
16 >
17 > The plan would be as follows:
18 >
19 > CC0-1.0-Universal -> CC0-1.0
20 > CCPL-Attribution-2.0 -> CC-BY-2.0
21 > CCPL-Attribution-2.5 -> CC-BY-2.5
22 > CCPL-Attribution-3.0 -> CC-BY-3.0
23 > CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-ND-2.5
24 > CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 -> CC-BY-ND-3.0
25 > CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0
26 > CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5
27 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0 -> CC-BY-SA-2.0
28 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 -> CC-BY-SA-2.5
29 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0 -> CC-BY-SA-3.0
30 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5
31 > CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-3.0 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
32 > CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0 -> CC-Sampling-Plus-1.0
33 > CCPL-ShareAlike-1.0 -> CC-SA-1.0
34 >
35 > In total, about 100 packages are affected. so it's a minor effort.
36 >
37 > Ulrich
38 >
39 > [1] http://www.spdx.org/licenses/
40 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files? Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>