Individual authors recognition

[John Cowan]

Xavier Grehant scripsit:

> Is there a license that forces distributions AND the copyright holder to
> acknowledge the authors of the initial work?

If the authors are signing over their copyright to the holder, the time to
negotiate is then.  If the authors are doing work-for-hire, the time
to negotiate is when they become employed.  Both of these are private
bargains which don't affect the public, so they aren't relevant to
Open Source.

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