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Congratulations Wikimedia licensing team! Shii (tock) 05:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They are to be congratulated for making Wikipedia's licensing terms ten times more complicated? Gurch (talk) 15:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't matter if it's more complicated for us-- it's now infinitely simple for other producers of free content. Shii (tock) 18:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CAPS

Are the long strings of all caps really necessary? Splargo (talk) 22:36, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC they're the legal equivalent of speaking to someone with a stern look on your face Gurch (talk) 23:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But the internet standard is that it's shouting. Surely Lessig, Stallman, Wales, and the boards of both the Wikimedia and Free Software foundations would all prefer legibility to following a tradition which has zero case law or statute or anything but tradition from an earlier era behind it. Is there any reason to doubt that? Splargo (talk) 05:15, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Human readable version?

It would be nice if we had the human readable version of this license up front, rather than simply giving all of the lawyerese text from the start... Mike Peel (talk) 22:59, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Agreed. Since Creative Commons prefers to link to the more human readable version at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ then we should certainly include that text in an article message box on this project page, like this:

Thank you. Splargo (talk) 05:45, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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	This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license below.) <small>The Commons Deed is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the Legal Code below — it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath. This Deed itself has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual license.</small>}}		This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license below.) <small>The Commons Deed is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the Legal Code below — it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath. This Deed itself has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual license.</small>}}

	:Thank you. [[User:Splargo\|Splargo]] ([[User talk:Splargo\|talk]]) 05:17, 17 June 2009 (UTC)		:Thank you. [[User:Splargo\|Splargo]] ([[User talk:Splargo\|talk]]) 05:45, 17 June 2009 (UTC)