On 6/2/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, you *can* look through the article histories
of deleted
content. You're an admin, ain't you?
You forget the age of BJAODN. For the early stuff the deletion logs
are gone. Additionally the credit needs to be public rather than admin
only.
Also, massive number of BJAODN entries are clearly
short enough to
fall under any reasonable interpreation of fair use.
Since in many cases we use the complete work probably not.
One can be flexible in their interpretation of the
GFDL; that is, our
policy towards images can and should be different than that towards
text.
That just sets up another set of problems. See in order to use such
images we have to in effect argue that individual articles are
aggregates.
Again, that's psychotic wikilawyering.
No we are talking about legally enforceable licences. Not wikilawyering.
We should. But this is absurd.
You can go back to the early days and see how I pressed Larry Sanger
to have us do a better job of adhering to the GFDL, so this is
particularly antagonizing.
The modern copyright person is somewhat different. Experience has
taught them that anything less than zero tolerance tends towards zero
enforcement at worrying speed.
To start with we are hoping to move towards the GSFDL which should
have a lower degree of suck.
--
geni