[WikiEN-l] I will be leaving the project

[Ray Saintonge]

Kelly Martin wrote:

>On 6/21/05, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
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>>I am very much copyright-unparanoid, but in the absence of any
>>credible indication that the entity calling itself CoolCat wrote the
>>material, we must presume the opposite.  If CoolCat disagrees with
>>that presumption, the burden of proof is on she/he/it.
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>Whatever happened to "assume good faith"?
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No need to stop doing that.  Verifiability also applies.  In most 
situations the contributor's copyright will go unchallenged; that's a 
presumption of good faith.  Anyone can raise a reasonable doubt (as 
opposed to a random challenge); that's when the contributor's burden of 
response kicks in. If he says that his work is completely original that 
shifts the burden, because he cannot be asked to show something that 
does not exist.  If the similarity of his contributions to something  
else goes beyond coincidence, then he has a need to clarify the situation.

Ec