Plaintext in multiple languages on the licenses

[little-wow]

Description

Plain text formats for the 4.0 licenses and the CC0 public domain dedication were created using a manual process. Only the English versions of the legal tools were formatted as plain text. Additionally, that manual creation process was not without errors and is not sustainable.

Expectation

Extend the CC Legal Tools App to generate deterministic plain text versions of the 4.0 licenses and the CC0 public domain dedication (including all translations):

@CreativeCommons Suggestion: I often encounter a frustrating issue: the plaintext version of licenses is only available in English.
What I would like: just like you append .txt to get https://t.co/xj09QHxa8o, get https://t.co/7BinrQoJXI to work too.
Cleaning myself is long 😉

— Matti Schneider (@matti_sg) January 5, 2018

Requirements

Updated requirements given cc-legal-tools-app:

• Plaintext format should be generated from "source" like the HTML is (not using Pandoc)
• Plaintext format generation should be idempotent--the output should be the same each time
• Plaintext output should exactly match existing plaintext files (except where those files are in error)
  • Plaintext versions of Creative Commons licenses and CC0 - Creative Commons
  • Plaintext versions of Creative Commons 4.0 licenses - Creative Commons
  • CC 4.0 plain text licenses: third level numbering in lower case but referencing in upper case #286

[peterspdx]

I'm fine with this so long as the plain text versions are limited to official translations of 4.0. We could rollout the plain text version every time we launch a new translation. I'd want to give more thought to doing this for pre-4.0 versions of the license. @little-wow @robmyers What do you think?

[yokwejuste]

Hi @TimidRobot I'll like to give a try to this issue

[TimidRobot]

Hi @TimidRobot I'll like to give a try to this issue

@yokwejuste I updated the issue description with more information. This task is quite involved.

[yokwejuste]

Alright, let me go through it then.

[yokwejuste]

The source files mentioned here are those generated by in the legal-code folder right?

[TimidRobot]

The "source" is a the combination of the data created with the load_html_files command and the translation files.

Also see the Data section of the creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data README.