[Foundation-l] Re-licensing

[Thomas Dalton]

> Requirement would be to give credit via the credit URL, and by mentioning the
> principal authors listed at that URL. What authors will be listed at that URL
> is something that we may change at our leisure: for example, this may be the
> proposed list of five authors, or none if more than five; or it may be a list
> of authors that is no longer than 1% of the length of the article, or none of
> longer; or, when appropriate software is developed, the list of principal
> authors as recognised by the software; it may even differ from project to
> project, for example Wikisource may choose to credit the authors manually (it
> is already doing something similar); and so on and so forth.

Any system other than crediting everyone or crediting no one requires
choosing people. How do you propose that to be done? And why doesn't
the person that contributed the 6th most text (say) not deserve to be
credited for their work?