Larry Sanger wrote:
Our project and yours can indeed continue to coexist
and to use each
other's work (well, assuming that you use the GNU FDL, that is, or
some other compatible license)
There's a point that I don't understand: Wikipedia has no records about
copyright-holders in its diffs and changelogs. When I create or edit a
page, the corporation that runs Wikipedia is the copyright-holder of
all my changes - which minimizes copyright-troubles. (And gives the
corporation the right to release modified or unmodified content under
any other license if they want).
But what happens when I insert a FDL document from a third party?
Section 4 of the GNU FDL mentions as requirement for modified copies:
"B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less than five)."
As far as I understand this, we have to provide the names of the
principal authors on each page we copy from a third party. Is this
true? How do we handle this? What about the other requirements below:
"I. Preserve the section entitled "History", and 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."
"J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise the
network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was
based on. These may be placed in the "History" section. You may omit a
network location for a work that was published at least four years
before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version
it refers to gives permission."
"K. In any section entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or
dedications given therein."
--ThomasHofer