[Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sun Mar 15 04:32:39 UTC 2009
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Language will not bind contributors who understand they
> are protected by the copyleft provisions of both GFDL and
> CC-BY-SA. That just will not happen.
>
> In the real world much of the terms of use will be just so
> much arm-waving, let us be realistic.
>
This just brings us back to a point I tried to make before. When a user
fails or even refuses to comply with whatever attribution rules we
proclaim, who is going to force him to do so? Contributors: Take solace
in the knowledge that your rights are fully protected by an army of
paper tigers.
Ec
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