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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Would the requirement to acknowledge meet the OSD?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm thinking yes but didn't ponder it deeply.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 6/4/2008 11:47 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Xavier Grehant<BR><B>Cc:</B> license-discuss@opensource.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Individual authors recognition<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Xavier Grehant scripsit:<BR><BR>> Is there a license that forces distributions AND the copyright holder to<BR>> acknowledge the authors of the initial work?<BR><BR>If the authors are signing over their copyright to the holder, the time to<BR>negotiate is then. If the authors are doing work-for-hire, the time<BR>to negotiate is when they become employed. Both of these are private<BR>bargains which don't affect the public, so they aren't relevant to<BR>Open Source.<BR><BR>--<BR>They do not preach John Cowan<BR> that their God will rouse them cowan@ccil.org<BR> A little before the nuts work loose. <A href="http://www.ccil.org/~cowan">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan</A><BR>They do not teach<BR> that His Pity allows them --Rudyard Kipling,<BR> to drop their job when they damn-well choose. "The Sons of Martha"<BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>