On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/1/5 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
<<In a message dated 1/5/2009 3:48:55 A.M.
Pacific Standard Time,
geniice(a)gmail.com writes:
Mostly because from time to time they have actually moved
content from one article from another (the rest of the time you can
nail them for persistently lying in edit summaries). Given the format
of the mediawiki software and the GFDL it is pretty much impossible to
do such merges without violating copyright>>
Could you explain a bit more why you think that merges violate copyright?
Thanks
Will Johnson
When you merge the wording of the GFDL requires that you preserve the
history (a really really bad choice of words). Can be done close
enough through a history merge but most users don't/can't do that.
--
geni
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Won't it satisfy the licence just to point to the other articles
history in the edit summary?