CC 4.0 plain text licenses: third level numbering in lower case but referencing in upper case

[jodeebrowm]

Description

The CC 4.0 plain text licenses use lower characters (a, b, ...) in the third level of the numbering, e.g. Section 2(a)(1) or 2(a)(5), but the internal references use upper case letters (A, B, ...), e.g. Section 2(a)(6) or Section 3(a)(3). This is inconsistent and potentially misleading.

The HTML versions of the license text does consistently use upper cases across all third level enumerations and references.

Expectation

Consistent naming equal to the HTML version.

Resolution

• I would be interested in resolving this bug.

I would be willing to capitalise those ~30 letters if I get a go ahead.

[TimidRobot]

A PR would be welcomed! However, before I merge it I will need to verify that it doesn't cause issues with licensee/licensee (as well as search for similar cases where changes could be disruptive).

[jodeebrowm]

Should I combine these changes with the ones in pull request creativecommons/creativecommons.org#1198 / creativecommons/creativecommons.org#1199 ? So we only break licensee et al once.

[jodeebrowm]

Any update on this? As said before, I'm willing to provide a PR but I'm still waiting for an answer on whether to combine this with creativecommons/creativecommons.org#1198 / creativecommons/creativecommons.org#1199.

[jodeebrowm]

@TimidRobot I've created a pull request for this: creativecommons/creativecommons.org#1240.

Hopefully, this brings this a step closer to being resolved.

[TimidRobot]

@jodeebrowm

I moved this issue here to cc-legal-tools-app so that we can solve this more reliably in the future. As the changes required are not simply whitespace and will impact license detection. I want to wait until we have additional changes ready so that coordination burden of upstream projects is minimal.