[Feature] Rename this repo to “cc-legal-tools-data” #44
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Creative Commons provides an official plain text version of CC0 here: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt> This change helps the repo comply with The Creative Commons Trademark Policy[1]. “The Creative Commons Trademark Policy applies to anyone who uses the CC trademarks.”[2] That policy says “Our registered trademarks and other trademarks include CREATIVE COMMONS (regardless of stylization, capitalization, translation, or other presentation), CC (including the CC in a circle logo (the “CC Logo”) and CC standing alone), CC+ (within a circle or standing alone) and CCPlus, CC0, all of the Creative Commons license and public domain buttons and icons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone.”[1] This repo uses the following trademarks from that list: - CC and CC0 (in README.md) - CREATIVE COMMONS, CC and CC0 (in LICENSE) The Trademark Policy goes on to say “To prevent confusion and maintain consistency, you are not allowed to use CREATIVE COMMONS, CC, the CC Logo, or any other Creative Commons trademarks with modified versions of any of our legal tools or Commons deeds.”[1] CC0 is a legal tool[3][4][5], so modified versions of CC0 can’t contain Creative Commons trademarks. Before this change, github#2158 introduced a modified version of CC0. That modified version still uses CC trademarks. That pull request’s original post explains “The license for this repository isn't being detected because the license file contain additional text, not part of the license.” (GitHub shouldn’t be detecting CC0 as a license at all, but that’s a separate issue[6]). GitHub now properly detects the official plain text version of CC0[7], so the original motivation for the change no longer applies. Links: 1. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark> 2. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> 3. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#44> 4. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app#208> 5. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#49> 6. <community/community#8533> 7. <https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data/blob/ffc5143206f5117bd0eaf61daeec943aef9cb377/COPYING>
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Creative Commons provides an official plain text version of CC0 here: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt> This change helps the repo comply with The Creative Commons Trademark Policy[1]. “The Creative Commons Trademark Policy applies to anyone who uses the CC trademarks.”[2] That policy says “Our registered trademarks and other trademarks include CREATIVE COMMONS (regardless of stylization, capitalization, translation, or other presentation), CC (including the CC in a circle logo (the “CC Logo”) and CC standing alone), CC+ (within a circle or standing alone) and CCPlus, CC0, all of the Creative Commons license and public domain buttons and icons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone.”[1] This repo uses the following trademarks from that list: - CC and CC0 (in README.md) - CREATIVE COMMONS, CC and CC0 (in LICENSE) The Trademark Policy goes on to say “To prevent confusion and maintain consistency, you are not allowed to use CREATIVE COMMONS, CC, the CC Logo, or any other Creative Commons trademarks with modified versions of any of our legal tools or Commons deeds.”[1] CC0 is a legal tool[3][4][5], so modified versions of CC0 can’t contain Creative Commons trademarks. Before this change, github#2158 introduced a modified version of CC0. That modified version still uses CC trademarks. That pull request’s original post explains “The license for this repository isn't being detected because the license file contain additional text, not part of the license.” (GitHub shouldn’t be detecting CC0 as a license at all, but that’s a separate issue[6]). GitHub now properly detects the official plain text version of CC0[7], so the original motivation for the change no longer applies. (“Policies - Creative Commons” <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> by Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> is licensed under CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). Links: 1. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark> 2. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> 3. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#44> 4. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app#208> 5. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#49> 6. <community/community#8533> 7. <https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data/blob/ffc5143206f5117bd0eaf61daeec943aef9cb377/COPYING>
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Creative Commons provides an official plain text version of CC0 here: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt> This change helps the repo comply with The Creative Commons Trademark Policy[1]. “The Creative Commons Trademark Policy applies to anyone who uses the CC trademarks.”[2] That policy says “Our registered trademarks and other trademarks include CREATIVE COMMONS (regardless of stylization, capitalization, translation, or other presentation), CC (including the CC in a circle logo (the “CC Logo”) and CC standing alone), CC+ (within a circle or standing alone) and CCPlus, CC0, all of the Creative Commons license and public domain buttons and icons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone.”[1] This repo uses the following trademarks from that list: - CC and CC0 (in README.md) - CREATIVE COMMONS, CC and CC0 (in LICENSE) The Trademark Policy goes on to say “To prevent confusion and maintain consistency, you are not allowed to use CREATIVE COMMONS, CC, the CC Logo, or any other Creative Commons trademarks with modified versions of any of our legal tools or Commons deeds.”[1] CC0 is a legal tool[3][4][5], so modified versions of CC0 can’t contain Creative Commons trademarks. Before this change, github#2158 introduced a modified version of CC0. That modified version still uses CC trademarks. That pull request’s original post explains “The license for this repository isn't being detected because the license file contain additional text, not part of the license.” (GitHub shouldn’t be detecting CC0 as a license at all, but that’s a separate issue[6]). GitHub now properly detects the official plain text version of CC0[7], so the original motivation for the change no longer applies. (“Policies - Creative Commons” <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> by Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> is licensed under CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). Links: 1. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark> 2. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> 3. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#44> 4. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app#208> 5. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#49> 6. <community/community#8533> 7. <https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data/blob/ffc5143206f5117bd0eaf61daeec943aef9cb377/COPYING>
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Creative Commons provides an official plain text version of CC0 here: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt> This change helps the repo comply with The Creative Commons Trademark Policy[1]. “The Creative Commons Trademark Policy applies to anyone who uses the CC trademarks.”[2] That policy says “Our registered trademarks and other trademarks include CREATIVE COMMONS (regardless of stylization, capitalization, translation, or other presentation), CC (including the CC in a circle logo (the “CC Logo”) and CC standing alone), CC+ (within a circle or standing alone) and CCPlus, CC0, all of the Creative Commons license and public domain buttons and icons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone.”[1] This repo uses the following trademarks from that list: - CC and CC0 (in README.md) - CREATIVE COMMONS, CC and CC0 (in LICENSE) The Trademark Policy goes on to say “To prevent confusion and maintain consistency, you are not allowed to use CREATIVE COMMONS, CC, the CC Logo, or any other Creative Commons trademarks with modified versions of any of our legal tools or Commons deeds.”[1] CC0 is a legal tool[3][4][5], so modified versions of CC0 can’t contain Creative Commons trademarks. Before this change, github#2158 introduced a modified version of CC0. That modified version still uses CC trademarks. That pull request’s original post explains “The license for this repository isn't being detected because the license file contain additional text, not part of the license.” (GitHub shouldn’t be detecting CC0 as a license at all, but that’s a separate issue[6]). GitHub now properly detects the official plain text version of CC0[7], so the original motivation for the change no longer applies. (“Policies - Creative Commons” <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> by Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> is licensed under CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). Links: 1. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark> 2. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> 3. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#44> 4. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app#208> 5. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#49> 6. <community/community#8533> 7. <https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data/blob/ffc5143206f5117bd0eaf61daeec943aef9cb377/COPYING>
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Creative Commons provides an official plain text version of CC0 here: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt> This change helps the repo comply with The Creative Commons Trademark Policy[1]. “The Creative Commons Trademark Policy applies to anyone who uses the CC trademarks.”[2] That policy says “Our registered trademarks and other trademarks include CREATIVE COMMONS (regardless of stylization, capitalization, translation, or other presentation), CC (including the CC in a circle logo (the “CC Logo”) and CC standing alone), CC+ (within a circle or standing alone) and CCPlus, CC0, all of the Creative Commons license and public domain buttons and icons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone.”[1] This repo uses the following trademarks from that list: - CC and CC0 (in README.md) - CREATIVE COMMONS, CC and CC0 (in LICENSE) The Trademark Policy goes on to say “To prevent confusion and maintain consistency, you are not allowed to use CREATIVE COMMONS, CC, the CC Logo, or any other Creative Commons trademarks with modified versions of any of our legal tools or Commons deeds.”[1] CC0 is a legal tool[3][4][5], so modified versions of CC0 can’t contain Creative Commons trademarks. Before this change, github#2158 introduced a modified version of CC0. That modified version still uses CC trademarks. That pull request’s original post explains “The license for this repository isn't being detected because the license file contain additional text, not part of the license.” (GitHub shouldn’t be detecting CC0 as a license at all, but that’s a separate issue[6]). GitHub now properly detects the official plain text version of CC0[7], so the original motivation for the change no longer applies. (“Policies - Creative Commons” <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> by Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> is licensed under CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). Links: 1. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark> 2. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> 3. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#44> 4. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app#208> 5. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#49> 6. <community/community#8533> 7. <https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data/blob/ffc5143206f5117bd0eaf61daeec943aef9cb377/COPYING>
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Creative Commons provides an official plain text version of CC0 here: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt> This change helps the repo comply with The Creative Commons Trademark Policy[1]. “The Creative Commons Trademark Policy applies to anyone who uses the CC trademarks.”[2] That policy says “Our registered trademarks and other trademarks include CREATIVE COMMONS (regardless of stylization, capitalization, translation, or other presentation), CC (including the CC in a circle logo (the “CC Logo”) and CC standing alone), CC+ (within a circle or standing alone) and CCPlus, CC0, all of the Creative Commons license and public domain buttons and icons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone.”[1] This repo uses the following trademarks from that list: - CC and CC0 (in README.md) - CREATIVE COMMONS, CC and CC0 (in LICENSE) The Trademark Policy goes on to say “To prevent confusion and maintain consistency, you are not allowed to use CREATIVE COMMONS, CC, the CC Logo, or any other Creative Commons trademarks with modified versions of any of our legal tools or Commons deeds.”[1] CC0 is a legal tool[3][4][5], so modified versions of CC0 can’t contain Creative Commons trademarks. Before this change, github#2158 introduced a modified version of CC0. That modified version still uses CC trademarks. That pull request’s original post explains “The license for this repository isn't being detected because the license file contain additional text, not part of the license.” (GitHub shouldn’t be detecting CC0 as a license at all, but that’s a separate issue[6]). GitHub now properly detects the official plain text version of CC0[7], so the original motivation for the change no longer applies. (“Policies - Creative Commons” <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> by Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> is licensed under CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). Links: 1. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark> 2. <https://creativecommons.org/policies/> 3. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#44> 4. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app#208> 5. <creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data#49> 6. <community/community#8533> 7. <https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data/blob/ffc5143206f5117bd0eaf61daeec943aef9cb377/COPYING>
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Problem
The title of this repo is misleading. This repo does contain data about Creative Commons licenses, but it also contains data about the CC0 Public Domain dedication and the Public Domain Mark.
Description
Rename this repo to “cc-legal-tools-data”.
Alternatives
Something could be added to the README that acknowledges the fact that the name isn’t quite accurate. cc-licenses already does this. I think that renaming is a better option though. It’s less misleading, requires less text and raises awareness that not all Creative Commons legal tools are licenses.
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