On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:40:05 -0500 Joe Smith wrote:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
>
> I tried to include the text, but had trouble getting it to degrade
> nicely.
Here's the complete text, for future reference, obtained with
$ w3m -cols 70 -dump \
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode \
> CC-by-sa-v3.0final-unported_text.txt
and then included in this message after dropping the header and footer.
I hope I can followup with my comments soon, assuming I manage to find
the necessary time... :-(
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