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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files?
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:07:42
Message-Id: 20755.53570.200814.993392@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 I always wondered why we are using such bulky names like
2 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 for the Creative Commons licenses,
3 instead of CC-BY-SA-2.5 like everyone else. The latter also used by
4 our documentation pages and is the name in the SPDX license list [1],
5
6 So, while in general I'm against renaming of licenses (e.g., it would
7 be pointless to rename our GPL-2 to GPL-2.0 in order to conform to the
8 SPDX list), I think that in this case we should get rid of these long
9 names which unnecessarily clutter the output of various tools.
10
11 The plan would be as follows:
12
13 CC0-1.0-Universal -> CC0-1.0
14 CCPL-Attribution-2.0 -> CC-BY-2.0
15 CCPL-Attribution-2.5 -> CC-BY-2.5
16 CCPL-Attribution-3.0 -> CC-BY-3.0
17 CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-ND-2.5
18 CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 -> CC-BY-ND-3.0
19 CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0
20 CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5
21 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0 -> CC-BY-SA-2.0
22 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 -> CC-BY-SA-2.5
23 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0 -> CC-BY-SA-3.0
24 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5
25 CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-3.0 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
26 CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0 -> CC-Sampling-Plus-1.0
27 CCPL-ShareAlike-1.0 -> CC-SA-1.0
28
29 In total, about 100 packages are affected. so it's a minor effort.
30
31 Ulrich
32
33 [1] http://www.spdx.org/licenses/

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files? Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files? Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>