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# Attribution
In the world of intellectual works (such as programs, texts, images etc.) attribution means visibly and properly acknowledging the work of collaborators, i.e. usually mentioning the names or pseudonyms of others that somehow took part in creation of the work. Sometimes we distinguish between merely giving *credit*, i.e. just recording collaborators somewhere, even in a less visible place such as some documentation file, and *proper attribution* which may have further conditions, e.g. mentioning the authors in a visible place (e.g. game's main menu) along with a link to their website and so on. Attribution is something that's often a condition of a [license](license.md), i.e. for example the [Creative Commons Attribution](cc_by.md) (CC BY) license grants everyone rights to the work as long as the original author is properly attributed. However we at [LRS](lrs.md) see such license requirements as [harmful](harmful.md); **forcing attribution by [license](license.md) is a very bad idea!** Never do it. Please consider the following:
In the world of intellectual works (such as programs, texts, images etc.) attribution means visibly and properly acknowledging the work of collaborators, i.e. usually mentioning the names or pseudonyms of others that somehow took part in creation of the work. Sometimes we distinguish between merely giving *credit*, i.e. just recording collaborators somewhere, even in a less visible place such as some documentation file, and *proper attribution* which may have further conditions, e.g. mentioning the authors in a visible place (e.g. game's main menu) along with a link to their website and so on. Attribution is something that's often a condition of a [license](license.md), i.e. for example the [Creative Commons Attribution](cc_by.md) (CC BY) license grants everyone rights to the work as long as the original author is properly attributed. However we at [LRS](lrs.md) see such license requirements as [harmful](harmful.md); **forcing attribution with a [license](license.md) is a very bad idea!** Never do it. Please consider the following:
- Forcing attribution may cause practical problems and make your work unusable. While it's no issue to give proper attribution to one guy who made music for your game, consider also a different scenario: e.g. in development of [LMMS](lmms.), a [FOSS](foss.md) music making program, the authors had to collect hundreds of short sound samples for their virtual instruments -- here they couldn't use CC BY-SA samples because doing so would require anyone who made music with their program to also carry on proper attribution of all the author of every single sample that was used in the music, which is practically almost impossible.
- Forcing attribution can make you be force singed under things you don't want to be signed under. Consider you make a comics for children and license it CC BY-SA, i.e. require attribution. By free culture principles someone can take the characters from your story and make porn or terrorist supporting videos with them and even if those guys knew you wouldn't want to be signed under this (because you e.g. made it clear on your blog that you hate porn and terrorism) and even if they would be willing to not name you, your license will force them to write your name PROPERLY, i.e. visibly, under the thing they make.