Licensing - how to (correctly) attribute the authors?

[ccoenen]

I'm currently looking into various emoji libraries, and this one is certainly very interesting. So first of all: thanks for creating it!

I am contributing to another open source project, which is a web-based collaborative text editor. I am thinking about adding the emoji as an option for users to add to their documents. We're debating right now, what the correct course of action is, regarding the -BY-SA part of your license.

Basically two groups have formed:

• one is arguing, that mentioning the credits once would be sufficient (think: imprint of a website or footer of a created document).
• the other is arguing, that each single occurence of an emoji would have to also contain a credit link. (basically the way a figure or photo in a blog post would get its credit).

So my question is basically: do you know, which one it is? Do you know somebody who could say with certainty?

To stress this: We are not trying to avoid giving credit. You deserve all the credit! We're just trying to "do it right" while also keeping the documents usable for our users. Here's a document (and more specifically a section of a document) containing our current emoji set:

https://hackmd-ce.herokuapp.com/features#Emoji

[b-g]

Hi @ccoenen,

Many thanks for the interest and encouraging words!

Yes, we had the same feeling that crediting every emoji would be way too much. Hence we added an attribution requirements hint to the readme. I think it quite down to earth and pragmatic:

As an open source project, attribution is critical from a legal, practical and motivational perspective. Please give us credits! Common places for attribution are for example: to mention us in your project README, the 'About' section or the footer on a website/in mobile apps.

The -BY-SA bit to simply to "protect" the OpenMoji of an commercial fork without us being involved.

Best, Benedikt

PS. HackMD looks interesting! Good luck with it!

cc @dnlutz

[b-g]

@ccoenen plz close if you are happy with my answer.

[ccoenen]

Yes, thank you :-)