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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rename Creative Commons license files?
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I always wondered why we are using such bulky names like
> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 for the Creative Commons licenses,
> instead of CC-BY-SA-2.5 like everyone else. The latter also used by
> our documentation pages and is the name in the SPDX license list [1],
>
> So, while in general I'm against renaming of licenses (e.g., it would
> be pointless to rename our GPL-2 to GPL-2.0 in order to conform to the
> SPDX list), I think that in this case we should get rid of these long
> names which unnecessarily clutter the output of various tools.

ask for forgiveness, not permission ;)

-A

>
> The plan would be as follows:
>
>   CC0-1.0-Universal                             ->  CC0-1.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-2.0                          ->  CC-BY-2.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-2.5                          ->  CC-BY-2.5
>   CCPL-Attribution-3.0                          ->  CC-BY-3.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-2.5                 ->  CC-BY-ND-2.5
>   CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0                 ->  CC-BY-ND-3.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0   ->  CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.5   ->  CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5
>   CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0               ->  CC-BY-SA-2.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5               ->  CC-BY-SA-2.5
>   CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0               ->  CC-BY-SA-3.0
>   CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-2.5 ->  CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5
>   CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-3.0 ->  CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
>   CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0                        ->  CC-Sampling-Plus-1.0
>   CCPL-ShareAlike-1.0                           ->  CC-SA-1.0
>
> In total, about 100 packages are affected. so it's a minor effort.
>
> Ulrich
>
> [1] http://www.spdx.org/licenses/
>