[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Tue Feb 3 22:37:40 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 03 February 2009 20:43:23 Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/2/3 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 20:22:02 Sam Johnston wrote:
> >> Given that full attributions are both largely worthless and onerous to
> >> the point of forbidding reuse in many circumstances (e.g. paragraph
> >
> > Please stop beating the dead horse. No one has ever suggested that full
> > attributions are necessary.
>
> Um... yes we have... unless "full attribution" means something
> different to you than it does to me. To me it means giving a full list
> of authors of a work along with the work - that's precisely what I
> interpret CC-BY-SA as requiring (it's rather flexible on exactly how

In the context of Sam's mail "full attribution" refers to a list of all 
editors of the article, not a list of all authors.




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