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Creative Commons 4.0 Markdown

On November 25th, 2013, Creative Commons announced their next generation licenses: Creative Commons 4.0. By default, these are available as HTML or plaintext. This project adds Markdown-formatted licenses to that list.

Unfortunately, the output currently varies on different Markdown viewers, in particular when it comes to indentation levels:

  • v0.1 uses tabs to indent text, might cause some blocks to be interpreted as code (e.g. on GitHub)

  • v0.2 uses spaces to indent text, results in less readable files when viewed as plain text

If you any suggestion on the formatting, feel invited to contribute.

Licenses

File extension

There's a plethora of Markdown file extensions, but I have decided to go with markdown. Read why:

“We no longer live in a 8.3 world, so we should be using the most descriptive file extensions. It’s sad that all our operating systems rely on this stupid convention instead of the better creator code or a metadata model, but great that they now support longer file extensions.”
Hilton Lipschitz (via)

“…the only file extension I would endorse is ‘.markdown’, for the same reason offered by Hilton Lipschitz”
John Gruber, creator of Markdown (via)

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If you notice any mistakes in content or formatting, please send a pull request with your correction.