[Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 20:46:31 UTC 2009


2009/3/20 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:

> A copy of Wikipedia text is frequently used in eBay descriptions of
> books.  The attribution is simply to Wikipedia, and does not progress so
> far as to say "[...] et al."  That's about as much as anyone could
> reasonably expect, no matter what the licence says.


This is what I mean when I say this is not a game of Nomic, and the
law is squishy. Does anyone actually think they could stop someone
from doing this? (If so, you're too batshit crazy to be listened to in
this discussion.)


- d.



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