[Foundation-l] Re-licensing

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/1/22 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
> On Thursday 22 January 2009 19:52:28 Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> > Requirement would be to give credit via the credit URL, and by mentioning
>> > the principal authors listed at that URL. What authors will be listed at
>> > that URL is something that we may change at our leisure: for example,
>> > this may be the proposed list of five authors, or none if more than five;
>> > or it may be a list of authors that is no longer than 1% of the length of
>> > the article, or none of longer; or, when appropriate software is
>> > developed, the list of principal authors as recognised by the software;
>> > it may even differ from project to project, for example Wikisource may
>> > choose to credit the authors manually (it is already doing something
>> > similar); and so on and so forth.
>>
>> Any system other than crediting everyone or crediting no one requires
>> choosing people. How do you propose that to be done? And why doesn't
>> the person that contributed the 6th most text (say) not deserve to be
>> credited for their work?
>
> I don't agree with that; I do believe that every author with significant
> (copyrightable) contribution should be credited.

So what was all that about only crediting 5 authors, or a list of
authors less than 1% of the article length, or whatever else?