Attribution howto?

[osbock]

Hi, I searched the forums here, but didn't find the EXPLICIT answer I was looking for, so I thought I'd try here.
I'm making an Arduino shield, and out of laziness, and tremendous respect for your design skills, I'm starting with the adafruit protoshield (and will retain some prototyping area, though I'll lose some to the actual functionality I'm implementing.)

I know the protoshield is released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-a-like license, and I'm happy with that as I was intending to open source my design as well.

The question is what is sufficient attribution. Is is sufficient to add something like "Derived from adafruit.com protoshield design" with a url reference in the documentation? Do I need something on the silkscreen? I imagine maintaining attribution on the silkscreen could get messy, as (in particular my design) might include parts of several other oshw projects.

I would plan, at a minimum to give credit in:
Blog posts about the project
Readme at github for the design files
Howto pages on my website, or any instructables I create.

I want to do the right thing here, and if successful, also drive traffic back to your site.

PS: Is this an example of non-attribution?
http://www.wickeddevice.com/index.php?m ... ucts_id=87
It looks like it is based on your design, but I couldn't find attribution anywhere. It could be they explicitly licensed it from you, but I can't tell.

[adafruit]

The question is what is sufficient attribution. Is is sufficient to add something like "Derived from adafruit.com protoshield design" with a url reference in the documentation? Do I need something on the silkscreen? I imagine maintaining attribution on the silkscreen could get messy, as (in particular my design) might include parts of several other oshw projects.

I would plan, at a minimum to give credit in:
Blog posts about the project
Readme at github for the design files
Howto pages on my website, or any instructables I create.

I want to do the right thing here, and if successful, also drive traffic back to your site.

hi, and thank you! yes, that's all fine. credit on the documentation page(s) and posting your own files in same way we did and licensing them in the same way is it. you're doing it perfectly, thank you!

you don't need to put it on the PCB, that can (as you said) get messy.

PS: Is this an example of non-attribution?
http://www.wickeddevice.com/index.php?m ... ucts_id=87
It looks like it is based on your design, but I couldn't find attribution anywhere. It could be they explicitly licensed it from you, but I can't tell.

it appears they did provide the files under creative commons, we're not sure if they used our design.
http://shield.wickeddevice.com/?page_id=2

cheers,
adafruit

[Cra451]

Thank you for this posting. I have been working on how to do this also.

Thanks.