On 18/08/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It's a sentence and a half of essentially unremarkable text with no easily identifiable author or significance. Good luck sorting out who they ought to credit...
At the very least they could say "[Taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature]". While not anywhere near enough for GDFL compliance, it's still much better than nothing.
Would they have to recall their boxes if wikipedia decided to destroy the contribution history and they couldn't find any way to reference it? Can their competitors now use the same designs for their boxes if they reference wikipedia? Seems a little farcical to talk about all this stuff as none of GNU's licenses have been tested in court yet right?