Add ‘Attribution’ to Blue Oak

[erlend-sh]

blueoakcouncil/model-license#2

Reposted in full:

I propose to add something like this section for v1.1.0:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) is the baseline for all CC licenses. They consider proper crediting to be table stakes for all their open commons licenses:

BY: credit must be given to the creator.

I share their belief in the power of attribution as a baseline for open sharing in the commons.

In a post-AI world, proper accreditation of human endeavors is more important than ever. A legal right to attribution is my best protection for Fair Use loopholes being used (abused) against me.

It’s also a great way to enforce a collaborative social graph of inter-dependencies and remixes of ones work.