[cc-community] [asheesh at creativecommons.org: Re: A comment from Noah Slater]
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Tue May 20 15:57:50 EDT 2008
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Terry Hancock
<hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> I can't believe this thread is still going on. Ah well, might as well
> add my two cents...
Heh, and thanks.
> However, having said that, I actually prefer the appearance of this more
> common form:
>
> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
>
> That's also very clear, and arguably more so than the "slash" version.
I agree. This is what we use and will use. I think the original
comment pointed out that we used something else somewhere. If it is
someplace that can be changed (ie anyplace except for .../legalcode
pages) it should be changed to that form.
> Strict English usage isn't supposed to have embedded capitals, but I
> think we'll have to get over that anyway, considering the plethora of
> computer industry jargon and tradenames (e.g. "iPhone" or "eMachine")
> which already use them.
Exactly. "Attribution-ShareAlike" is a name/brand, not an English sentence.
Mike
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