[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

Wed Jun 4 02:34:55 UTC 2008

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:20 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:14 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/6/4 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>>> (and the licensing concerns that
>>> go along with that - I doubt anyone can say with absolute certainty
>>> whether such usurpation is even legal,
>>
>> It probably isn't:
>>
>> I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and
>> add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
>> publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there
>> is no section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one stating
>> the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given on
>> its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as
>> stated in the previous sentence.
>>
>>
>> --
>> geni
>
> My recollection (and it's been a year since I was head-down in the DB
> tables, so it may be wrong) is that the Database stores all the
> changes by user ID not username - so, if you change an IDs associated
> name (the usurped account being renamed) then the ownership / change
> history changes along with it transparently.
>
> If that is not correct I apologize, but that's what I remember of it...
>
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>
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In the revisions table, both user name and user ID are stored.

-Chad