[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 22:23:49 UTC 2009


2009/1/11 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/11 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> I don't understand, which terms don't appear and how is that relevant?
>> CC-BY-SA allows authors to specify how they wish to be attributed, so
>> we can (at least try to) choose a way that ought to be acceptable to
>> people that have accepted the GFDL.
>
> They can specify but that means nothing. The CC-BY-SA 3.0 actually says:
>
> provide, reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing: (i) the
> name of the Original Author (or pseudonym, if applicable) if supplied

Interesting - the "human-readable" version says: "You must attribute
the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor". Now that
I look for it, however, I can't find anything like that in the license
itself...



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