Jim Cheetham wrote:
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Jim Cheetham wrote:
In a wiki environment, as I see it, there is no way to guarantee to preserve attribution easily. Changes are logged, but contributors might be anonymous. So the licenses/by* are probably not appropriate ... and I can't see anything like an nc-sa one ...
Full reading of the legalese version of the 2.0 licenses provides :- > give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You > are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of > the Original Author if supplied
With the emphasis on "if supplied", we start to see the light a little bit. That implies that a modification to a wiki page *must not* remove any attributions within it, but does not necessarily have to provide an attribution itself.
Even more strictly true with by-sa licensing.
I'm not especially happy about that, though, as I didn't to see an "aggregate editing/blog" style of wiki, but a free-for-all edit-what's-already-there style. Preserving attributions seems to force the blog style.
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I heartily agree - we must avoid the blog "here's the latest pearl direct from my ego" style.
If someone edits a credit to themselves into a page, then editing that credit out could break the "if supplied" rule.
Could all material be made the property of the CLUG? In this way, the attribution remains always with the CLUG, and by-sa licence becomes a flier --- nope. Darn. Just read it again, and by-sa/2.0 refers explicitly to the "original author".
I think that the answer here is a Twiki, which does involve log-ins and a CVS server. Is this difficult, Jim? This means that CVS would record the attribution automatically, and we can always roll back. We can have an anonymous log-in for the terminally shy.
Douglas.
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