[WikiEN-l] Oh shit, Slashdot is an attack site!

[Vee]

On 08/08/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/7/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Casey Brown wrote:
> > > Perhaps you are thinking about her many archives?  It would be crazy
> to
> > > remove that much of someone's contribution history for any
> reason.  The devs
> > > would absolutely throw a fit! :-P
> >
> > It would probably involve a lot of GFDL violation, too. Removing the
> > edit history of a prolific long-time editor would potentially make
> > thousands of articles into copyvios.
> >
> Whose copyright would be violated?  If the long-time editor gives you
> permission, then I don't see how it could constitute a copyright
> violation.
>

Well it would violate the GFDL which requires attribution, Unless of course
you agree to relinquish all rights to those edits and release them into the
public domain without need for attribution.