Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> The conversion was done as follows:
>
>     * I downloaded each of the Creative Commons licenses
>       <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/> and ran the resulting HTML
>       through html2text
>       <http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html> .
>     * 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". 

Nice work.

Would be nicer still if all these steps could be handled by invoking a 
single python function (with legalcode html utf8 string as sole 
parameter, utf8 preformatted text as return value).

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