On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:22 PM, geni
<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/6/4 George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com>om>:
If an usurped account owner complains, along
these lines, our
counterargument is "We still list (your account / identity) in the
article history, though we've changed the displayed text string for
it. That's all we do for anyone, ever."
Nice try but the GFDL isn't interested in account / identities just
the text string.
The GFDL is concerned with authors, not their arbitrarily chosen
pseudonyms. So long as the invariant list of authors is properly
attributed, it does not matter what nickname they use to sign into the
website.
How can you possibly properly attribute the authors' without using their
self-determined names?
I agree with Geni that the natural interpretation of "List ... as authors,
one or more persons or
entities responsible for authorship..." is to report them in the form
orginally declared by the author. Renaming them without their permission
strikes me as neither legal nor ethical.
-Robert Rohde