Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Tarmo Toikkanen <tarmo.toikkanen AT aalto.fi>]

Thanks for the clarifications, Kat!

While you're fixing the worksheet, and adding sentences that are not 
strictly license text, might I suggest you also add the strings that 
need to be inserted to the license texts when making the 6 variants? Now 
that they are not in the worksheet, we had to separately ask the 
translators to do those. It would be simpler to have everything in the 
worksheet.

Specifically, these are the missing strings:

BY and BY-NC:
- Insert 3(a)(4): “If You Share Adapted Material You produce, the 
Adapter's License
You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying
with this Public License.”

BY-ND and BY-NC-ND:
- Insert “For the avoidance of doubt, You do not have permission under 
this Public
License to Share Adapted Material.” at the end of Section 3(a)(1)

BY-ND:
- Change Section 2(a)(1)(B) to “produce and reproduce, but not Share, 
Adapted
Material”
- Insert “, provided You do not Share Adapted Material” to Section 4(a)

BY-NC-ND:
- Change Section 2(a)(1)(B) to “produce and reproduce, but not Share, 
Adapted
Material for NonCommercial purposes only”
- Insert “and provided You do not Share Adapted Material” to Section 4(a)

Actually, to be on the safe side, it might be best to furnish the 
worksheet with full sentences of all alternatives. Meaning: Whenever a 
license variant calls for an "insert" or "change" or "remove", having 
all those different versions in the worksheet would make sure that the 
meanings are accurately translated. I can imagine that in quite a few 
languages, adding or removing a phrase might not be trivial, but require 
changes in the rest of the sentence.

On 24.7.2014 21.36, Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Tarmo Toikkanen
> <tarmo.toikkanen AT aalto.fi> wrote:
> > On creating the xhtml version of the 4.0 suite translation, I've stumbled
> > onto the following discrepancies between the html text currently in the CC
> > BY-NC-SA 4.0 legal code html file and the translation worksheet:
> >
> > 1. Section "Considerations for the public", last sentence is "More
> > considerations for the public" in the legal code, while in the worksheet the
> > sentence is "More considerations for licensees". Which is correct?
> This is an error in the worksheet. "More considerations for the
> public" is the correct language.
>
> > 2. The worksheet is missing the H1 title "Creative Commons Legal Code".
> > Should it be translated?
> >
> > 3. The worksheet is missing the H3 title "Creative Commons
> > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License"
> > (although in most cases it's probably easy to build from the license
> > components).
> Thanks; we'll add these to the worksheet also.
>
> > 4. The worksheet is missing the "Additional languages available" bit, which
> > is in html <!-- comments currently. Should it be translated or not? If yes,
> > can we also fix the html invalidity problem, as the commented section
> > contains a <p> that is not closed? The section also contains an "<a name"
> > attribute, which is currently obsolete. What is your advise?
> It should be translated; we'll add this also. (It is currently
> commented-out in the English because it makes no sense to display it
> when there aren't any translations published yet.) Please do fix this
> in your final draft, including replacing the obsolete element; we'll
> add the corrections to the English also.
>
> > 5. "Back to Commons Deed" is in the html, but not in the worksheet. Should
> > it be translated?
> Yes, it should be.  (The worksheet is mainly to aid our reviewing, and
> since this is just navigational text we're not particular about how
> this is translated--but since it is confusing that it is not present,
> we will add it.)
>
> Thanks,
> Kat

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Tarmo Toikkanen
researcher, tarmo.toikkanen AT aalto.fi
Learning Environments research group, http://legroup.aalto.fi
Creative Commons Finland, http://creativecommons.fi
Aalto University, http://aalto.fi