Attribution question.

Daniel Carrera dcarrera at math.umd.edu
Mon Mar 28 08:23:56 EST 2005


Hello,

I have a question about the attribution requirement. My team is writing a 
user guide for OpenOffice.org. We are planning on having a section called 
"Authors" with... well, the list of authors:

    Authors
    ~~~~~~~
    Daniel Carrera
    Nancy Koh
    Meredith O'Brien
    ...

In our project, each chapter is a separate document, and has a maintainer. 
So each chapter would have its own Authors section.

Now... what I would like to do is add a note indicating who the current 
maintainer is. Perhaps something like this:

    Authors
    ~~~~~~~
    Daniel Carrera
    Nancy Koh
    Meredith O'Brien
    ...

    Current Maintainer
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Nancy Koh


Is that allowed by the BY license?

I ask because the license says that your attribution may not be more 
prominent than the attribution of another contributor. From the POV of BY, 
would this make the maintainer more prominent than the others?

Cheers,
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