Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

So, after about the 10th time I'd crabbed on this list about the lack of plain-text versions of the Creative Commons licenses, Mike L. pointed out that a volunteer should probably make candidate versions, which could then be modified. He then pointed out that that volunteer should probably be me.

I've thus made some translations of the CCPL into plain text and made them available on my Web site for review:
>     http://bad.dynu.ca/~evan/ccpl/
I have left in the name "Creative Commons" because I'm doing this in the hopes that these (or some later version) get moved to creativecommons.org as "the" plain-text versions. I also believe that the plain-text versions are identical works to the HTML versions, merely with a change of medium. If there's any problem, I'd be happy to strip the Creative Commons trademark out of there until and if CC wants to use these versions.

The conversion was done as follows:

• I downloaded each of the Creative Commons licenses and ran the resulting HTML through html2text .
• I removed the alt text from the Creative Commons logo, and the "back to license deed" text.
• I added blank lines between each paragraph, to simulate the formatting used in the HTML versions.
• I added an underline to the word "License" to identify it as a sub-heading.
• I added a similar sub-heading, "Creative Commons Notice", to the trademark restrictions language at the end. The comment that begins this section in the HTML says "BREAKOUT FOR CC NOTICE. NOT A PART OF THE LICENSE" and the end of it says "END CC NOTICE". I guessed that "CC NOTICE" would be best put into the text as "Creative Commons Notice".

Any other changes were by accident.

Comments or criticisms welcome. It'd be interesting to see what we do next with this.

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou
evan AT bad.dynu.ca

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