[odf-discuss] Apache2 and ODF (was: 16x16 mime type icons)

[Thomas Zander]

I think you are confusing two points here.

* The bsd-original license meant that in documentation or other places where 
the end product was shipped the name of the author(s) was to be placed. This 
is indeed a no-go as you saw.

* The point that CC makes is that the author of the work needs to be 
registered very much like the author of a piece of sourcecode adds his name 
to the header of the file.
This is required by copyright law. If there is no named copyright holder you 
can't copy the copyrighted content. As well as a license, if there is no 
license, you can't copy the work.

If you read the actual license[1] you will see that (4 a and b) will require 
anyone to a) point out the actual license the files are under and b) the 
name/email of the author.

This is (legally) different from what you have on your page now and IMO not a 
problem at all.

1) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/

On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:05, Pete Harlow wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> It was *having* attribution that was the problem. The deed says "*
> Attribution*. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the
> author or licensor." and I suppose it is possible to say "No attribution
> required". But I am told many projects shy away from contributions under
> the CC licence because of 'attribution creep', the requirement to keep and
> manage huge lists of contributors.
>
> On 16/11/06, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 November 2006 13:29, Pete Harlow wrote:
> > > IIRC the problem with the CC licence was the one of attribution, and
> >
> > with
> >
> > > the FSF licences obviously one of using the work in commercial
> > > packages.
> >
> > Did you try the wizard I linked to?
> > It allows for attribution.
> >
> > Not that I think its a smart thing to ask for if your first goal is to
> > have a
> > big uptake.
> > --
> > Thomas Zander
> >
> >
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Thomas Zander
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