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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files?
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:48:56
Message-Id: CAB9SyzSKNgpwyFm-EynFAxVJkp_Y8-hZJDx1wn-NUy1SHmNMFQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files? by Alec Warner
1 On 8 February 2013 00:31, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 >> I always wondered why we are using such bulky names like
4 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 for the Creative Commons licenses,
5 >> instead of CC-BY-SA-2.5 like everyone else. The latter also used by
6 >> our documentation pages and is the name in the SPDX license list [1],
7 >>
8 >> So, while in general I'm against renaming of licenses (e.g., it would
9 >> be pointless to rename our GPL-2 to GPL-2.0 in order to conform to the
10 >> SPDX list), I think that in this case we should get rid of these long
11 >> names which unnecessarily clutter the output of various tools.
12 >
13 > ask for forgiveness, not permission ;)
14 >
15 > -A
16 >
17 >>
18 >> The plan would be as follows:
19 >>
20 >> CC0-1.0-Universal -> CC0-1.0
21 >> CCPL-Attribution-2.0 -> CC-BY-2.0
22 >> CCPL-Attribution-2.5 -> CC-BY-2.5
23 >> CCPL-Attribution-3.0 -> CC-BY-3.0
24 >> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-ND-2.5
25 >> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 -> CC-BY-ND-3.0
26 >> CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0
27 >> CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5
28 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0 -> CC-BY-SA-2.0
29 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 -> CC-BY-SA-2.5
30 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0 -> CC-BY-SA-3.0
31 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5
32 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-3.0 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
33 >> CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0 -> CC-Sampling-Plus-1.0
34 >> CCPL-ShareAlike-1.0 -> CC-SA-1.0
35 >>
36 >> In total, about 100 packages are affected. so it's a minor effort.
37 >>
38 >> Ulrich
39 >>
40 >> [1] http://www.spdx.org/licenses/
41 >>
42 >
43
44 Yes please!
45
46 --
47 Cheers,
48
49 Ben | yngwin
50 Gentoo developer
51 Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files? Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>