[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

John at Darkstar wrote:
> Norwegian law says principal authors should be attributed, and I believe
> its the correct thing to do. It is not a good reason to say that today
> we can't identify those authors. Most of the articles I've been involved
>  in writing has had very few principal authors, most of them only one or
> two.
>
> In Norwegian law the principal authors can choose what to do with the
> article, even relicense it, without asking any of the other writers.
>
> It should be interesting to make some statistics over how many principal
> authors there are for articles from Wikipedia. I think the nom are
> pretty few, even for those articles that has grown very large.
>
> John
>   

In Finnish moral rights law, the right to be identified
as the author of ones work is inalienable and absolute,
and cannot be voided even through a contractual
transaction.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen