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  • From: Brian Schack <spon0112 AT morehead-st.edu>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Wiki license 0.5 beta
  • Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:38:10 -0400

On Mar 28, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Greg London wrote:
maybe someday, people will be able to waive attribution or
prohibit attribution completely. Attribuiton is a market economy
element. Gift economy licenses ought to have a way to waive it
or even prevent it completely.
According to Homesteading the Noosphere by Eric Raymond, a very important essay on open source gift culture,
"Removing a person's name from a project history, credits, or maintainer list is absolutely not done without the person's explicit consent."
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s03.html





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