[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:48 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>wrote
>> It seems to me that this is
>> such a loose concept that might be interpreted so differently by
>> various editors that the reprinter is pretty much stuck with an
>> all-or-nothing approach -- either you print all the editors in tiny
>> type, which actually obscures the major contributors to an article, or
>> you use some sort of metric or value judgment in picking out
>> significant contributors, which seems like will always be wrong in
>> some way.
>>     
> Life (especially with regard to the law and ethics) works that way some
> times.  But just because it's difficult for you to determine exactly where
> the line is, that doesn't excuse you from clearly crossing it.
>
>   
That's a self-contradictory statement.  If you can't determine exactly 
where the line is there is nothing clear about having crossed it.

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