4.7 Distribution Terms

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This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative
Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.

Pages in other languages should translate this notice, and should link to a translated version of the Creative Commons license “deed” if it’s available.

The translation should be used consistently throughout pages translated to that language.

For example, here’s the text they provide for Dutch:

Dit werk is gelicenseerd onder een <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/deed.nl">
Creative Commons Naamsvermelding-GeenAfgeleideWerken 3.0 Verenigde
Staten licentie</a>

Note that the link in this text is changed to point directly to the Dutch language deed. We should always link to a copy of the license deed that’s in the same language as the page itself. When no deed in your language is available, link to the English language deed.

Note that translations should not change the jurisdiction of the license; in case of CC BY-ND 3.0, they should always link to the CC BY-ND 3.0 United States license, and not a different port like CC BY-ND 3.0 Japan. This is because there are substantive differences between the way different ports handle moral rights issues, and we prefer the specific terms that are in the United States license.