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Legal tool (licenses, public domain dedication, etc.) management application for Creative Commons
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Missing .txt legalcode version of CC BY 3.0 IGO #384

Open mmoreshead opened 6 years ago

mmoreshead commented 6 years ago

From info@:

Hi,

Looking for the text version of the CC BY IGO (3.0). In theory, it should be here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode.txt

As is the case (for example) with CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt

However that just bounces to a HTML version of the document, which isn't useful for our purposes.

Any chance of getting that fixed in the very near future?

justinclift commented 6 years ago

Looking at this repo, it appears all of the licence formats (html/text) are in this directory:

https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/tree/master/docroot/legalcode

I can convert the html version to text, and make a Pull Request on GitHub to include it. (eg straight conversion, no wording changes at all)

Would that be acceptable?

I really just need a plain txt reference I can point people at. Happy to do the work myself to get it on here if that's what takes. :smile:

mzeinstra commented 5 years ago

@justinclift would this work for you? https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode-plain

justinclift commented 5 years ago

No, that's not plain text. Note its extensive use of html formatting. :wink:

As a reference point, the CC BY 4.0's plain text version:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt

mzeinstra commented 5 years ago

Those .txt versions are only ever used on the plain 3.0 and 4.0 licences. They are not adopted for any port of the license as the 3.0 IGO is. You wil notice in your repo link that there are alot more html files than .txt files.

For example the Dutch ported 3.0 license also has no txt version: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/legalcode.txt

Having said that, I would just go ahead and make that pull request with your own .txt, since it appears not to be a priority of CC. (I'm not a CC developer)

justinclift commented 5 years ago

Thanks @mzeinstra, good idea. :smile:

kgodey commented 5 years ago

CC developer here, please go ahead and make a pull request!

Re: priority, the license infrastructure has significant technical debt that we've been working through, it would still be a couple of months before we get to this issue ourselves.