Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Robin Millette <millette AT waglo.com>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> So, after doing the plain text versions of the CC licenses, I did some
> diff's to make sure that I hadn't accidentally added in any errors. That
> is, I wanted to make sure that the by-2.0 and by-sa-2.0 only differed by
> the addition of the ShareAlike element and some section-numbering
> issues.
>
> I was surprised to see that there were various other textual
> differences. Probably the most interesting was the differences in the
> warranty disclaimers. Here's the warranty disclaimer in the Attribution
> 2.0 license:

[snip]

> Note "MUTUALLY AGREED BY" vs. "MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY".
>
> Anyways, unless there's some good reason for it, these should probably
> be made equal in some future version of the licenses.

That is very strange. The translations where all done from a single 
document, the licence containing all clauses. Then that was broken into 
the individual clauses and reassembled to make each complete 
translations. This would mean that the translations shouldn't show this 
discrepancy. I haven't verified this though.

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