[Commons-l] Creative Commons is introducting CC-Ø

[Florian Straub]

 "Bryan Tong Minh" <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote on Saturday, November 
17, 2007 10:27 PM:
> On Nov 17, 2007 10:19 PM, Ayelie <ayelie.at.large at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 17, 2007 4:03 PM, Kjetil Ree <kjetil_r at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Ayelie wrote:
> > > > On Nov 17, 2007 7:20 AM, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com
> > >
> > > > <mailto: brianna.laugher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     However the problem still remains of how to pronounce this. ;) 
> > > > "CC
> > > >     urh". "CC slashed-oh."  "CC empty set." "CC Close-mid front 
> > > > rounded
> > > >     vowel". Problematic indeed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "CC-none", short as "CC-by" and even shorter than "CC-by-sa" :)
> > > >
> > > All Scandinavians know that a Ø is pronounced like the 'i' in 'Sir'.
> >
> > "CC-ih" ?
> >
> >
> > [Not directed towards kjetil in particular]
> > I'm not sure everyone would pick up on that, might be easier if we just
> > refer to it as "CC-none" or "CC-released"  or something of the s ort, 
> > rather
> > than "CC-Ø". Licensing is hard enough for newbies (even for oldbies!) 
> > and
> > there's so much confusion over which CC licenses are accepted, it's 
> > easier
> > for us to say "we accept CC-by, CC-by-sa, and CC-none" than it is to use
> > "CC-Ø".
>
> I think CC-none is a not so good idea. CC-none implies CC without
> anything, which implies that all CC licenses are allowed. I think
> CC-null, CC-zero or CC-O is less confusing.

Null or zero sounds great. Especially since a sign similar to Ø can be used 
to distinguish O from 0 over here.

Regards,

Flo