[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> 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.


Sure there is.  There's clearly right, there's clearly wrong, and then
there's a grey area in-between.  You know the line is in the grey area, but
you're not sure exactly where.