[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Thu Jan 22 15:44:39 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> Anthony writes:
> >  The credit should be part of the work itself, not external to the work.
>
> This is a very odd notion, and I find nothing in the language of any
> free license that supports it.
>

Well, first off, I wasn't referring to free licenses, I was referring to
rights.

That said, the GFDL requires authors to be listed in "the section entitled
History", and it clearly states that a "section "Entitled XYZ" means a named
subunit of the Document..."


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