[CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution

Thu Apr 16 20:58:48 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at ieee.org> wrote:
> A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki.  I
> originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on
> HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and
> the reference got removed in the edit process.  I generally do not
> include my name on Wiki pages I create, but it is fairly common
> practice.   Should there be a statement in the Guidelines covering this
> area?

This was discussed a bit quite a while ago in this mailing list:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2007-October/000734.html

There was no conclusion but we can see different views on this subject.

Akemi