Draft License 2.5 - Now open for discussion

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Fri May 20 10:31:58 EDT 2005


Evan Prodromou said:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:33:56AM -0700, Mia Garlick wrote:
>
>> (1) To take account of the needs of people who create wikis and thus
>> allow attribution to the wiki rather than the author or to the wiki and
>> one or more authors as they prefer
>
> One concern: what about copyright notices? Won't they still need to be
> preserved, with accurate attribution? If so, doesn't that defeat the
> goal of this change?

notices are legally optional. if contributers don't put in a notice,
then there isn't any extra overhead. the only overhead is attribution
to the wiki itself.

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