--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
In any case, this proposal certainly *will* undermine the
individual right
to attribution held by individual contributors, so anyone
who supports that
right *should* vote against the proposal or refuse to vote
at all. If you
want to nitpick whether or not this is indisputable, fine,
I'll let you have
your way. But indisputable or not, it is a true
fact.
Personally I don't think this proposal really changes anything significant in that
regard. I think the our attribution model is inadequate and always has been. I don't
think making this inadequacy more public than it has been in the past is a significant
change.. I have confidence that someday we will switch to a better attribution model and
that it will then be possible to migrate old edits to that model. I supported the change
of license even though it not address my attribution concerns, because the change itself
does not create these concerns. Trying to hold up the license change in an attempt to
leverage proponents of CC-by-SA to address long-standing attribution inadequacies does not
appeal to me. I cannot agree that vote for a change in licensing can be interpreted as
support for the current attribution model. It only means you believe the change in
licensing is a net benefit over no change.
Birgitte SB