On 8 February 2013 00:31, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I always wondered why we are using such bulky names like >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 for the Creative Commons licenses, >> instead of CC-BY-SA-2.5 like everyone else. The latter also used by >> our documentation pages and is the name in the SPDX license list [1], >> >> So, while in general I'm against renaming of licenses (e.g., it would >> be pointless to rename our GPL-2 to GPL-2.0 in order to conform to the >> SPDX list), I think that in this case we should get rid of these long >> names which unnecessarily clutter the output of various tools. > > ask for forgiveness, not permission ;) > > -A > >> >> The plan would be as follows: >> >> CC0-1.0-Universal -> CC0-1.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-2.0 -> CC-BY-2.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-2.5 -> CC-BY-2.5 >> CCPL-Attribution-3.0 -> CC-BY-3.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-ND-2.5 >> CCPL-Attribution-NoDerivs-3.0 -> CC-BY-ND-3.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0 -> CC-BY-SA-2.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5 -> CC-BY-SA-2.5 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-3.0 -> CC-BY-SA-3.0 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-2.5 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5 >> CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial-3.0 -> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 >> CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0 -> CC-Sampling-Plus-1.0 >> CCPL-ShareAlike-1.0 -> CC-SA-1.0 >> >> In total, about 100 packages are affected. so it's a minor effort. >> >> Ulrich >> >> [1] http://www.spdx.org/licenses/ >> >
Yes please! -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
