[Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun Mar 15 22:08:53 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Erik Moeller wrote:
> >  a) a link
> > (URL) to the article or articles you are re-using,
> As I have said on a few occasions now in a few
> threads, this is of course no attribution at all.
>

Unfortunately, 4 out of 5 people disagree with you, and the foundation is
probably going to go with majority rules.

This needs sorely to be worded something like
>
> a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article
> or other page that contains the authorship
> information of the articles you are re-using.


For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all.



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