Re: They didn't attach the GFDL!!!

 
In a message dated 5/4/2008 12:01:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight
Time,  
thomas.daltongmail.com writes:

I think  it does state 5, but I don't think that clause was
written
with wikis in  mind. I have no idea how you're meant to
determine the
top 5  authors.>>


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Well after having a go-round with some wikipoopians over it,
it seems like  
you only need to name the principal authors if you alter the
text in some way,  
and none of our mirrors actually does it anyway, and no
one's ever been sued 
for  doing it contrariwise.
 
I.E. a tempest in a teapot used to attack people you don't
like instead of  
actually fulfilling our mission.
 
Which is, in my mind, to provide a free encyclopedia, free
for anyone to do  
anything they want with, and they probably will and do,
flauntly any  
interpretation of the license whatsoever.  It will be
interesting to see  how these 
"let's sell pages x1 through x10 of wikipedia to
audience y" go.   I'm fairly 
confident they won't be naming any of the authors at all.
 
Hey we're gonna set legal precedent, woo hoo !
 
Will Johnson



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>  Well after having a go-round with some wikipoopians
over it, it seems like
>  you only need to name the principal authors if you
alter the text in some way,
>  and none of our mirrors actually does it anyway, and
no one's ever been sued
>  for  doing it contrariwise.

So what you do have to do if you're just distributing
unmodified text?
You certainly have to provide some kind of attribution...

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