So, basically, we want people reusing our content to
show some sign
that they are attempting in good faith to comply with the license,
even if they don't quite dot the i's and cross the t's in a manner
that can't be nitpicked to death by a lawyer. Perhaps we should
have, somewhere prominently linked from our copyright license page,
some plain-English non-lawyerese explanation of the bare minimum that
would be needed by a reuser to show such good faith and not be
ridiculed by us (even if we're not generally inclined to sue).
That is exactly what I'm saying, yes, but that's just me. It's not,
and can't be, an official position. The official position is that you
have to do what the license says, and that's all the official position
can ever be, since that's what the law says. I think we have (although
I've no idea where) instructions on how to comply with the GFDL,
written in as plain English as possible. While we won't generally
enforce the license to the letter, we can't say that officially or we
are effectively changing the license (and we'd need the permission of
pretty much everyone that has ever contributed in order to do that).