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. > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > 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
