Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
According to the GFDL, we have to acknowledge the author of [[Obanair]]; we don't. There is a link to the original page, but it has been deleted. There is no way this complies with the GFDL. [...]
No, it's always advisable to do something about a copyright violation. (If it's advisable to do it *now*, doesn't matter; see my previous reply.)
Is this a copyright violation? It seems to me that it's a contract violation but not a copyright violation. We believe that text was given to us to use under the terms of the GFDL. We believe that we are complying with the spirit of the license. We don't believe that any contributor cares about lack of credit on BJAODN. If anybody cared to claim credit unintentionally lost, we'd remedy it in a flash. Or they could. So if we are violating the license (and the "five principal authors" clause makes me wonder), it seems a very minor contract violation, not a crime.
On the other hand, if we treat all copy-paste moves and merges like this as copyright violations serious enough to demand instant deletion, extended drama, and coming to the brink of a wheel war, then surely BJAODN isn't our biggest problem. Shouldn't we drop everything and go around deleting all of the articles where we suspect proper credit has been lost?
William