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Add qualifying CC licenses #353

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Closes #33

mlinksva added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2016
Add qualifying CC licenses
@mlinksva mlinksva merged commit 814bf9a into gh-pages Feb 24, 2016
@mlinksva mlinksva deleted the cc branch February 24, 2016 01:14
nickname: CC-BY-SA-4.0
source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt

description: Similar to <a href='/licenses/cc-by-sa-4.0/'>CC-BY-4.0</a> but requires derivatives be distributed under the same license. Frequently used for media assets and educational materials. A previous version is the default license for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Not recommended for software.
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I think this link should be …/cc-by-4.0/, not …/cc-by-sa-4.0/ (sorry for only checking after the PR landed ;).

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And although the human-readable summary uses “same license”, it links to a page listing other compatible licenses, and the license text includes a compatible-license alternative. So I'd consider using “similar license” here.

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the same or a similar, compatible license.

Thanks for both corrections. If you want to submit a PR that'd be welcome, otherwise I'll fix in next few days.

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:21:29AM -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

the same or a similar, compatible
license.

Works for me.

Thanks for both corrections. If you want to submit a PR that'd be
welcome…

Done in #357.

wking added a commit to wking/choosealicense.com that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2016
Correct a typo from c81c90b (conform to SPDX title to make tests
work, github#353).
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