[Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

[Luke Faraone]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:

> This brings up an issue I have been thinking about, since the SynPhony
> database comprises several "with attribution" components.  Would it make
> sense to have a common design element that was "about <activity>" or
> "credits" that would allow contributions to be acknowledged?  Leaving aside
> whether it is a license requirement I think it is good practice to show
> Sugar users, aka kids, that some people cared enough to build this stuff,
> and that if they build stuff they can receive acknowledgement too.


Agreed, but it might be a good idea to implement a standard for such
copyrights, to make them machine-readable. See
http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing for two such formats.

-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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