I'm looking through the various new docs for IPS and friends for the new
release and ran across this FAQ:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/newbie_faq/

A bulk of that FAQ came from my blog...  I'm happy that its used, but
authors must be attributed properly for reasons including:

1) Even opensolaris.org looks very "Sun-ish", attributing authors shows
community involvement.
2) Readers may wish to find additional content by a given author
(example: only a portion of my "Solaris-RHEL Translation Guide" was put
into the FAQ)
3) Conflicts may arise with content licenses, namely Creative Commons
licensed works, such as mine.
4) Accountability is a good thing, for better or worse.

Attribution is just good in general and fundamental to free software.  I
hope at some point even Sun staff authors are fully attributed.

benr.

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