[Wikipedia-l] FDL used to stifle distribution of articles

Sat Nov 29 21:49:56 UTC 2003

On Saturday 29 November 2003 15:10, Erik Moeller wrote:
> There may be a solution to prevent this problem from escalating. We could
> amend the edit notice on Wikipedia to require the author to release third
> parties from the need to maintain a list of five "principal authors" per
> page, since such a release is explicitly provided for in the FDL..

This is a big problem indeed. However, if the user threatening this is 
unreasonable (which it appears that s/he/it is), then this will not help the 
immediate situation, as everyone licensed their contributions under the GFDL 
which has the five main authors clause in it.

Best,
Sascha Noyes

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