[Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 12:19:53 UTC 2009


2009/3/4 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 2009/3/3 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> Excellent. Getting some idea of community opinion is very important.
>> However, has anyone carried out my suggestion of consulting with the
>> CC lawyers?
>
> We've been in repeated conversations with CC about the possible
> attribution models. CC counsel has commented specifically that
> attribution-by-URL is a permissible attribution model that is
> consistent with the language and intent of CC-BY*.

And that explicitly included offline reuse? If so, it looks like we're
ready to present a final proposal for the community to vote on. Even
with such a small sample size, those numbers are pretty conclusive.



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