On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Erik Moeller wrote:
Alex-
I think what he is trying to say is that
Wikipedia is one encyclopedia,
and the GFDL does not require a history for each section of the publication
but for the whole publication.
When I view a Wikipedia article, I can view the article directly -- I do
not have to pass through a title page, as I would when viewing an FDL-
licensed book. I could search for "Donald Rumsfeld" on Google and
immediately end up on the Wikipedia article about him.
Or on the McFly article, in which case I would be told nothing about the
fact that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL, or about its history,
its authors etc.
This is clearly in violation of both the letter and the spirit of our
license.
Before a violation of the license, it's a violation of the
copyright/author's rights. References to the authors has been
removed. This case is before a licensing issue, it's a violation of
the copyright. The nuance is quite important because we don't go
directly of the question of licensing and its validity. Various cases
around GNU GPL was not around the license itself but only on the
violation of the author's rights principle.
just my 0.02 EUR,
adulau
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