Peter Kupfer wrote:
I would like to see an area that distinguishes between like the lead author/owner of the file and the contributors.
So would I, but one of the consequences of the CC-BY license is that we can't. We have to make sure everyone is equally prominent. The CC-BY is designed like this in purpose. It is meant to avoid the following scenario:
* Peter makes a fantastic work of art. * Daniel makes one tiny change to it. * Daniel puts in big huge letters "design by DANIEL CARRERA!!" and adds a footnote on page 37 in 8pt font saying "yeah, and Peter did some stuff too".
By requiring Daniel to make Peter's attribution "at least as prominient" as his own, we can minimize this sort of abuse.
Hmmm... Can't we just say we are using the part of the dual license we like?
But fear not Peter! We still have the website. :-) If you are really keen, we can use that to add extra recognition to people. Like, we can put a trophy on the page with the inscription "Peter rulez". Or we can assign ourselves silly titles. Like, Linda can be the Empress of Draw, Jean can be the Tzarina of Writer and you can be the Lord Captain Commander of Reviews. :-)
I am not so much worried about titles, although I wouldn't mind being the grand overlord of of something. What I want to avoid, and it sounds like we cannot, is a scenario like where you wrote the styles chapter for writer and the I review like once and make one change and now I am listed as involved in the chapter as you and this has 2 bad consequences:
1) I think it diminishes the work of the "Head" author
2) Someone might e-mail me with questions when they should be directed at you.
I guess if we have to do it a certain way to get into the CC-BY, then we have to do it. I guess this would be my biggest reservation at this point.
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Correct. And it's one of the reasons why the CC-BY is so important here. Using a dual CC-BY / GPL means that any given distributor can pick either one or the other (or both). When we distribute hard copies, we will pick just the CC-BY. Hence, circunventing the source code thing.
A philosophical question: What is a license. Can't we just make up our own license. Are we required to follow one of these other licenses, or is it just easier?
Thanks,
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
