[cc-community] [asheesh at creativecommons.org: Re: A comment from Noah Slater]
Noah Slater
nslater at bytesexual.org
Thu May 15 06:21:27 EDT 2008
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:53:47PM +0100, Robert Atwood wrote:
> Attribution; Share-Alike; Non-Commercial; etc.
I don't think this is correct usage of the semicolon. The words here are being
used as adjectives to describe the licence, in no other situation have I seen
semicolons used to separate multiple adjectives.
The other messages no this thread seemed to suggest that the long form of the
licence name should match the abbreviated form, but I think this is
misguided. The use of hyphens in the abbreviated form is pretty standard but the
rules of style for fully expanded names should be considered a separate matter.
I do not see the need for any punctuation between adjectives in the expanded
licence names and cannot think of any "prior art" for this style.
Does anyone have any idea how to take this forward and get something changed
because despite what is eventually agreed upon, consistency across the licences
is important.
Thanks,
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Noah Slater - Bytesexual <http://bytesexual.org/>
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