On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Toby Bartels wrote:
I think that this is the tricky case, because the
history may still infringe.
As long as we get no complaints, then that's just fine and they all stay up.
But if we do get complaints, then there may be a quite contentious issue
as to which versions are infringements that must be removed and which aren't;
complicating this is how to give credit to the authors of the good text.
We only have to credit the authors, and give a history of the changes to the
text, there is nothing in the GNU/FDL that tells us to provide the older
versions (IIRC). So just giving the names/nicks of the authors and the dates
of major revisions should be enough for the GNU/FDL. Just changing the old
version with 'removed for copyright reasons' should be enough.
The best way to prevent this (besides avoiding
infringement at first)
is to /completely/ rewrite any violation as soon as it is detected,
rather than letting it be slowly changed over the course of several edits.
Yes, but what if it has been slowly changed over the course of several edits
already before it is detected?
Andre Engels