[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

[geni]

2009/2/3 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> What I mean is options for attribution schemes and similar provisions
> that deal in a practical manner with CC documents published
> iteratively with a large number of authors.  For example, a license
> might include a provision: "For works published in multiple iterations
> and having more than 10 authors, one may choose to list only the 10
> most recent authors and add the proviso 'plus X others' where 'X'
> specifies the number of additional authors whose names are omitted".

You've just allowed someone to copy the whole of wikipedia only
crediting 10 authors.

> This language is obviously oversimplified, but the point is that the
> license can usefully add clauses dealing with works with many authors,
> or works that have a history of being published under many different
> versions.  As long as those clauses are optional and available on all
> derivatives, I would expect such clauses to solve more problems than
> they create.

Actually I would expect people to respond to that by abusing the
living daylights out of the copyright notices clause which doesn't
greatly improve things.

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geni