[Fwd: FW: For Approval: Generic Attribution Provision]

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Dec 15 06:36:27 UTC 2006


Rick Moen wrote:

> Does his/her derivative work need to sport _two_
> advertising logos in the bottom-left corner?  With addition of
> borrowings from Codebases C, D, and E, Joe/Jane would seem to have
> accumulated a big enough crowd of logos for them to form a basketball
> team, nicht wahr?

This objection been mentioned, and the closest thing to a rebuttal was:

Ross Mayfield wrote:

> Yet, by their nature, licenses with
> attribution will only permit the original licensor to include its logo
> since the license cannot be amended by sublicensors.

This would seem to ban combining multiple badgeware programs.

Matt

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