On 12/12/2011 3:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote:
I think what he means is that under most European copyright regimes, an author has far-reaching personality rights, which include the right to have the work accredited to them whenever it is republished. The terms of use, in his feeling, hollow out this right by redefining the obligatory credit part of the GFL and CC-BY-SA in such a way that one can mention all authors by doing something that does not include mentioning any of them.
That may be the case, but any contributions to the projects is made under an unequivocal grants of permission to redistribute under those terms; the TOS only restate the inevitable, they're not putting forth any new concept there.
-- Coren / Marc