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Subject: Development of Creative Commons licenses

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  • From: "Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: "Development of Creative Commons licenses" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] CC URLs
  • Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:18:18 -0800

On 2/7/08, Erik Moeller <erik AT wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is a small whiny complaint, but ...
>
> on a few occasions I've found myself typing URL shortcuts like
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa
>
> Those don't work - and you have to navigate your way through the site
> to find your license. Would it be possible to make these shortcuts
> resolve to some really basic selection page?

They don't work on purpose as we really don't want people intending to
use a license to link to a non-license. However we should have a nice
page explaining that one must select a specific license at such URLs.
Our developers will put this in the queue.

Thanks!
Mike




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