<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:29 AM, David Woolley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk" target="_blank">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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There is a project, Creative Commons, that focuses on providing free<br>
license for art, music and works alike. They tackled the localisation<br>
issue well, by providing localised licenses that is interchangeable with<br>
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No they don't.  All the licences seem to be in English.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Max is correct; you are wrong. Deeds are translated in some cases, but licenses also undergo what CC calls "porting": a combination of translation and adaptation to local jurisdictions. You can see this, even if you're only an English-speaker, by noting that CC has several different licenses in English:</div>
<div><br></div><div>e.g., CC BY "England and Wales": <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/legalcode">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/legalcode</a></div><div>CC BY United States: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode</a></div>
<div>CC BY Scotland: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/legalcode">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/legalcode</a></div><div><br></div><div>Max, it is important to know that CC *now believes they got this wrong*, and will stop porting licenses starting in 4.0, focusing instead on translations. Some discussion of that here: <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2013-September/007451.html">http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2013-September/007451.html</a></div>
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each other, even in the copyleft variants.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do not take for granted that the licenses (before 4.0) are interchangeable. For example, some (but not all!) of the EU Share Alike licenses in 3.0 deal with database rights.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Luis</div></div></div></div>