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

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon May 12 09:32:13 EDT 2008


On Monday 12 May 2008 06:28:22 Noah Slater wrote:
> 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

Well, Since I tend to use BY-SA or BYSA as short forms, I would tend to favour 
Attribution-ShareAlike. Not sure if it makes sense, but I think that is how I 
have been doing things myself.
>
> 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,

all the best,

drew



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