Development of Creative Commons licenses

[tomislav medak <to-me AT mi2.hr>]

hi alek et al.,

while this seems reasonable in terms of being more economic, i'm not
sure it does help in understanding what this cryptic acronym should
stand for. maybe the full wording doesn't help either :-S

i've got also a similar consideration  that i wanted to raise for quite
some time now: shouldn't we find a plain language word for "deed"? for
most of the world having no knowledge of legal terminology this provides
no clue as to what the document behind this term is. to make even more
complicated than just being the matter of translating this adequately
into its local language equivalent, it's also part of the deed page
graphics. what do others think? what would be a good synonym in english
for "deed"?

tom

Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> (sorry for crossposting, seemed a good subject for both lists)
>
> I've heard recently several comments regarding what a nuisance it is in 
> some situations to provide the necessary licensing information - for 
> instance a newspaper printing a CC licensed story often does not have 
> the space to provide the name of the license together with its URL.
>
> So I've been thinking about possible solutions and I remember reading on 
> the cc-licenses list that an abbreviation might be acceptable: for 
> instance CC BY-NC-SA 2.5. That does save space, especially in languages 
> like mine, where words are long.
>
> But a friend of mine has suggested the use of the four deed icons 
> instead of words - the way MozCC does that for webpages.
>
> So I would like to know what you think about this. And I know this would 
> require a change in the license wording. But are there, for instance, 
> any legal hooks to this - difficulties caused by the fact that these are 
> visual elements?
>
> Or maybe this can be done already with the current licenses?
>
> Best,
>
> Alek Tarkowski