2009/1/22 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
2009/1/22 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/1/22 geni geniice@gmail.com:
So what exactly is the problem with requiring credit "reasonable to the medium or means"?
The fact that we don't seem to be able to agree on what is reasonable.
I agree that at least the varied interpretations of 'reasonable' expressed in this thread indicate a need for a more explicit approach.
There is nothing you can do that will remove that from the crediting clause. Whatever you try to require there will always be a "reasonable to the medium or means" filter between you and the reuser. Trying to engineer around it would be unwise.
Whether such different perceptions are as wide-spread in the broader author community as they are here is not clear.
And unimportant. The license doesn't take into consideration what the authors consider reasonable to the medium or means.
I will begin thinking about how a consultative survey could be constructed to help inform the process in a timely fashion.
I would suggest that first you try and produce a halfway valid justification for the 5 name+url proposal before we waste time putting it out to a survey.