[Fwd: Re: For Approval: The Azure License]

Wilson, Andrew andrew.wilson at intel.com
Wed Jul 8 19:38:06 UTC 2009



Kenneth Ballenegger [mailto:seoxys at gmail.com] wrote:

> Wilson: Good point about big OSS projects having many copyright
> holders. I could add a clause that states that in case there are
> multiple copyright holders, attribution should be given to the group
> as a whole (eg. Contains code from the Linux project [link]) -- do you
> think that would work?

Yes, that would work.  Require a single link either to the Initial Developer's page,
or to the main project page, where the list of contributors can be as long as you
like.  Avoid NASCAR-ization of projects who use your code.

Andy Wilson
Intel open source technology center



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