Ben Rockwood wrote:
> 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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Ben, I'll look into this (but give me a little time, as I'm still 
ramping up). We definitely want to give credit where due. Thanks for the 
heads up.

-alan


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