On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
When the license calls for attribution to be treated in a "reasonable" way, I suspect that one could make a good case that relying on a good blame engine would often generate a reasonable attempt at attribution,
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Often, sure— But what happens when it fails and you have someone yelling loudly on the talk page "Hey! it's misattributing my authorship to some dumb bot, yet I wrote the whole thing!" ...
It's not reasonable by any human (or legal) standard to continue to misattribute in a case like that, yet addressing that case with some automatically generated report is not easy.
(and, of course, it's a great starting point… so long as someone remembers to continually point out that its not a final answer).