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On 8 February 2013 00:31, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM, 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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> ask for forgiveness, not permission ;) |
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> -A |
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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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Yes please! |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |