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On 7 February 2013 16:07, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> I always wondered why we are using such bulky names like |
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> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 for the Creative Commons licenses, |
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> instead of CC-BY-SA-2.5 like everyone else. The latter also used by |
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> our documentation pages and is the name in the SPDX license list [1], |
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> So, while in general I'm against renaming of licenses (e.g., it would |
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> be pointless to rename our GPL-2 to GPL-2.0 in order to conform to the |
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> SPDX list), I think that in this case we should get rid of these long |
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> names which unnecessarily clutter the output of various tools. |
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> The plan would be as follows: |
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> CC0-1.0-Universal -> CC0-1.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-2.0 -> CC-BY-2.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-2.5 -> CC-BY-2.5 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-3.0 -> CC-BY-3.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-ND-2.5 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 -> CC-BY-ND-3.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0 -> CC-BY-SA-2.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 -> CC-BY-SA-2.5 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0 -> CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5 |
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> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-3.0 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 |
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> CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0 -> CC-Sampling-Plus-1.0 |
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> CCPL-ShareAlike-1.0 -> CC-SA-1.0 |
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> In total, about 100 packages are affected. so it's a minor effort. |
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> Ulrich |
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> [1] http://www.spdx.org/licenses/ |
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Your plan makes sense to me, so +1 |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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