[cc-metadata] under a Creative Commons license

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 EST 2007


Evan Prodromou wrote:
> It's good that that objection has finally been resolved, but I have a
> new one. The generated text now says something along the lines of:
> 
>         Work X by Author Y is licensed under a Creative Commons
>         Attribution 2.5 Canada License.
>         
> I'm not sure the indefinite article is appropriate here. "Creative
> Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License" names one and only one thing,
> and in English we use "the" in such cases. So maybe this would be less
> weird-sounding:
> 
>         Work X by Author Y is licensed under _the_ Creative Commons
>         Attribution 2.5 Canada License.
> 
> It's not a big deal (definitely not vital!), but it does read better.

You're right.  We'll update.

> P.S. If we were going to go all crazy with the wordsmithery, we might
> also try to find a way not to use the word "license" twice in the same
> sentence.

What do you suggest for the verb? Released? Published? Offered? Just "is 
under"?

(Should this be on cc-community?)

Thanks!
Mike


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