[cc-community] "Unported" confusion

Nathan Yergler nathan at creativecommons.org
Mon Dec 24 09:44:06 EST 2007


On 12/22/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was brought to my attention recently that the "Unported" aspect of
> CC-3.0 licenses may be confusing. A friend told me that he searched
> all over the CC website to try and find the significance of what
> unported meant but he couldn't find anything.

Good point; we're out of the office for the holiday, but we'll get
that added to the FAQ.

>
> In addition, the human code pages say at the top "This page is
> available in the following languages: " (+ links to various ported
> licenses)
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to say "This license has been ported to
> the following jurisdictions"? Because that's what's actually going on.
> If you simplify beyond that then really it becomes misleading I think.

The links aren't to the ported licenses, though, just to translations
of that jurisdiction.  For example, the Attribution 3.0 Unported
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) links to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.fr, which is that
license in French, not the French jurisdiction.  The French
jurisdiction license is at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/.

>
> Also, the word "ported" and "unported" could be linked to a FAQ item
> "What does it mean if a license is unported?" recommending people to
> choose ported licenses, if that is indeed what CC wants to do, and
> explaining that they are all mutually compatible.
>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
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