Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 04:07PM, Greg London <email AT greglondon.com> 
wrote:

>A simple "sign off" document won't help against
>SCO-like suits because it doesn't associate the
>contributer's name with the code.

>From reading around this, associating the contributor's name with the code 
>is the whole idea. At the moment, Linus Torvalds just sees the final 
>check-in, which may have come through several people. This associates the 
>name back to whoever is *claiming* they wrote the code. Not as good as the 
>FSFs filed paperwork, but better than the current email fog.

- Rob.