Add plaintext license link to XHTML versions

[RichardLitt]

What

I continually want to download the plaintext versions of the licenses, so that I can bundle them with my software repositories. However, there are no easy links to the plaintext versions in the XHTML pages for the licenses. Adding a link would be very useful in cutting down on search time.

Links

Here are the plaintext files I am thinking of: https://creativecommons.org/2014/01/07/plaintext-versions-of-creative-commons-4-0-licenses/

Here is an example of an XHTML page without a license file that is downloadable: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

How

There are a few possible solutions:

• I can PR a link for you to the XHTML pages;
• We could make a link to a single GitHub repository where all of the plaintext licenses are kept
  • I could make this repo, and then move it to Creative Commons organization, or just have it on my profile, I guess.
• We could make an exportable license package for software; npm i cc-by-sa-4.0, for instance.

Finally

Thank you! Great work, creative commons. :)

[CynthiaOmovoiye]

Hi, My name is Cynthia Omovoiye. I am an applicant for Outreachy internship may 2020. I have come across this issue on your project list and would like to know if this issue is compatible with the outreachy internship contribution stage. If yes, please can you guide me on what is expected of me on this issue, so I can make my contribution to it. Thank you for your assistance.

[kgodey]

Sorry, this issue was marked "help wanted" a while back and not reviewed. We will not be making this change since we're working on a new version of the license generation code.