Creative Commons License Errors #682
Description
On this page of the most common licenses <github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/license/licenses.json>, the Creative Commons licenses should not have the hyphen after the “CC” part or before the version number. Also, the full suite of licenses includes all of these <creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses>:
CC BY 4.0
CC BY-SA 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
CC BY-ND 4.0
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
CC0 1.0
The emphasized licenses do not appear on the list. Did they not make the cut for some reason?
As for the hyphen, I do not see why it needs to replace white space. Maybe I am missing something here. I also do not see why “All Rights Reserved” must be initialized, especially when the documentation says to use lowercase. (Why lowercase? Was this copy-pasted from the podcast:guid entry?) Again, I may be misunderstanding a technical point, which nullifies what I wrote above about “intrusive” hyphens.
While I am on the topic of writing and punctuation, this line does not need a comma:
For new, or custom licenses it is required.
Just this is fine:
For new or custom licenses it is required.
As is this:
For new or custom licenses, it is required.
You only use the comma when you have three or more modifiers.
For new, rare, or custom licenses it is required.
or
For new, rare, or custom licenses, it is required.
Even then, newspapers stand apart from Chicago Style and almost all books. A comma does not follow the penultimate modifier:
For new, rare or custom licenses it is required.
or
For new, rare or custom licenses, it is required.