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

Matthew J. Agnello matt.agnello at gmail.com
Mon May 12 09:47:39 EDT 2008


I also tend to use Attribution-ShareAlike or BY-SA.

// Matt


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Matthew J. Agnello
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On May 12, 2008, at 9:32 AM, drew Roberts wrote:

> 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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