On Nov 11, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
It's so easy to explain and understand: if there's an <author> in the <head>, then that applies to all the <entry>s which don't have their own <author>.
Authorship isn't that simple. The <author> in the <head> always applies to all the entries. The best we can do is say the stuff in <head> applies to the feed and the stuff in <entry> applies to the entry. IMHO, getting more specific means defining authorship and copyright.
You're saying that as though it were axiomatic. I say "on the contrary". The author of 'ongoing' is Tim Bray which should be reflected at the <head> level. On occasion I have had a guest author, e.g. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/04/12/FowlerOnIBM Normally I would not waste bytes by putting <author> in <entry>, but for that <entry> I would, because it has a different author.
Atom has exactly zero chance of capturing the final legal shadings in the notion of "authorship" which anyhow vary from country to country and Atom is not a U.S. thing.
I think a gnat is being strained at here. -Tim
