Nathan K's summary is a fair statement of where we are--after some consultation we drew out the boundaries of what elements of the page are and are not legal code that cannot be changed, and determined that markup changes that do not modify the actual license are allowable. We haven't yet set this down in a formal policy but will in the near future.
-Kat On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Nathan Kinkade <[email protected]> wrote: > Diane is on this list and can weight in if necessary, but I believe > that it was lately established (at least informally so) that such > changes would be acceptable, since it only modifies the underlying > markup and not the actual license in any way. > > Nathan > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Maarten Zeinstra <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Nathan K for clarifying that. >> >> On Nathan Y's remark on changes to the legalcode-pages. I don't think that >> making them more secure (i.e. more accessible for people who browse the web >> certain ways) would change anything in the legal code. We shouldn't confuse >> significant changes to the actual texts or appearance to the these document >> to keeping up to date with technology. We are actually changing the >> appearance of these pages by not changing them, as they won't load properly >> on user's browser with more strict security guidelines.. >> >> I would be we wholly in favour of refactoring all ~750 legalcode pages if >> that would mean that they would be accessible over more secure connections. >> Don't get me wrong, I believe we should never change the actual wording or >> layout of these documents but in 20 years these documents need still be >> visible to the common browser and protocols at that time. If we can now >> identify a trend of more https (or spdy) traffic than I think we should >> enable and add those protocols to these pages. >> >> @Dan, as this will be under your supervision in a couple of weeks, what are >> your thoughts? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Maarten >> >> -- >> Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | @mzeinstra >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 24, 2013, at 19:04 , Nathan Kinkade <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Refactor all links from a form like >>>> >>>> http://www.creat.. >>>> >>>> to >>>> >>>> //www.creat… >>>> >>>> I don't know if that notation is backward compatible with most browsers >>>> though. >>> >>> It is. We use it protocol-relative URLs in a number of places already. >>> >>> Nathan >> > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel -- Kat Walsh, Counsel, Creative Commons IM/IRC/@/etc: mindspillage * phone: please email first Help us support the commons: https://creativecommons.net/donate/ CC does not and cannot give legal advice. If you need legal advice, please consult your attorney. _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
