[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

Tue Sep 11 14:23:08 UTC 2007

On 11/09/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Surely a title behind a link that few people ever use is not "a
> > prominent place preceding the the beginning of the body of the text".
> > As for it being available with the author list - given that we don't
> > HAVE an author list as required by the GFDL, that's a hollow phrase.

> The history page includes an author list. It's not on the "title
> page", admittedly, but that's a pretty minor distinction. I'm no
> lawyer, but I'd say any violations of the GFDL on Wikipedia are de
> minimis.

Quite apart from the "We're the biggest single pile of GFDL content
available and that's how we've done it for years with no problems.
Lots of mirror sites too with no problems." In the very first
litigation ever on a given manner, US judges do take note of common
practice.

- d.