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versionless license URLs obtain forbidden #571

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@mlinksva

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At various points in time versionless URLs have helpfully listed the available versions of a kind of license eg https://web.archive.org/web/20030211171554/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ https://web.archive.org/web/20040408120052/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ [skipping various error and bare directory years] https://web.archive.org/web/20110530060350/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ helpfully serves as a 404 and pointer to versions you were likely looking for. That seems to have stopped working between https://web.archive.org/web/20230821221022/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20231207175841/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/

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Visit a page like https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ and get a forbidden message.

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Something more like https://web.archive.org/web/20230821221022/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/

(I did not discover this. Someone mentioned to me that they still had the versionless URLs in their browser history and were disappointed when not finding the versioned links linked from there.)

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