Development of Creative Commons licenses

[evan AT bad.dynu.ca (Evan Prodromou)]

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