Printable page GFDL compliance issues (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] Donation header)

Tue Oct 7 03:24:20 UTC 2003

Alex wrote: 
>Shouldn't the printable version also have a URL to the 
>GFDL rather than a wikilink? Also shouldn't there be a 
>page history link as well (once again to the URL)? 
>Whouldn't this be more in compliance with the terms of 
>the GFDL which require that the GFDL go with the 
>copyrighted material and at least the five most significant 
>authors being acknowledged?

IMO, printable pages should have three things:

1) A clickable backlink to the article that also displays the full URL 
2) A clickable backlink to our local GNU FDL copy (full URL, blah, blah)
3) Maybe even a "Revision history" link.

That way, downstream users who simply copy the source text of a printable page 
and then use the page somewhere else on the Internet, will be in full 
compliance with the GNU FDL (them having a local copy of the GNU FDL is not a 
strict compliance term). 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)