2009/3/11 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>om>:
3. If the intent is to maintain a stipulation that
conforming
to the license can be done by satisfying a significantly
lower threshold than supplying the authors, but since we
are doing that "more onerous route", every other sad site
should do the same; well I simply disagree, and that
phrasing merely reads petulant and doesn't even get the
point across.
I'm not sure we're understanding each other, still.
The point of the provision is to ensure that attribution by link
always happens by linking to a copy that actually gives authorship
information. In most cases that will be our website, but the
attribution requirements should allow for independent mirrors and
forks.
I've reworded it slightly:
"b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable
online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the
license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner
equivalent to the credit given on this website"
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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