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- From: evan AT bad.dynu.ca (Evan Prodromou)
- To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: Different warranty disclaimers?
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:27:09 -0500
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:53:56PM -0500, Robin Millette 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.
> >[...]
> >I was surprised to see that there were various other textual
> >differences.
>
> 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.
I suggest that a similar process -- conversion to text and then
diff'ing -- should be done for the iCommons licenses. It's a QA issue.
I'll take a poke at the iCommons Canada English licenses if you do the
French versions, Robin. B-) Sadly, html2text is kind of crappy at
handling non-Latin-1 character sets.
~Evan
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Different warranty disclaimers?,
Evan Prodromou, 03/19/2005
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Re: Different warranty disclaimers?,
Robin Millette, 03/19/2005
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Re: Different warranty disclaimers?,
Evan Prodromou, 03/19/2005
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Re: Different warranty disclaimers?,
Robin Millette, 03/19/2005
- Re: Different warranty disclaimers?, Robin Millette, 03/19/2005
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Re: Different warranty disclaimers?,
Robin Millette, 03/19/2005
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Re: Different warranty disclaimers?,
Evan Prodromou, 03/19/2005
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Re: Different warranty disclaimers?,
Robin Millette, 03/19/2005
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