<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cafl@msbit.com" target="_blank">cafl@msbit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.</blockquote>
</div><br clear="all">Agreed, but it might be a good idea to implement a standard for such copyrights, to make them machine-readable. See <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat">http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat</a> and <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing</a> for two such formats.<br>
<br>-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc" target="_blank">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>