[cc-community] [asheesh at creativecommons.org: Re: A comment from Noah Slater]

Noah Slater nslater at bytesexual.org
Mon May 12 06:28:22 EDT 2008


Hey,

I have been directed to this list to discuss a change I would like to make to
the punctuation on the creative commons deeds.

My original comment was that the hyphen is used inconsistently:

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/legalcode

    Attribution - Share-Alike

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/

    Attribution-Share Alike

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

    Attribution-ShareAlike

> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:51:29AM -0700, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> The hyphen is placed that way intentionally.  All of the Deeds separate the
> fundamental license parts with hyphen.  So you won't see, for example:
> Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike, but instead it is
> Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.

It is my understanding that the following (preferred) form is incorrect:

  Attribution-Share Alike

I would suggest that the following is more stylistically correct:

  Attribution Share-Alike

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> We can't change the text at "legalcode" URLs but we'll arrive at and
> enforce consistent usage on deeds and future licenses.

On that note, what do people think? It would be nice to get consensus.

Thanks,

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Noah Slater - Bytesexual <http://bytesexual.org/>


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