2009/2/19 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>om>:
Without disagreeing on the importance of attribution
standards
per se, it is clearly inaccurate to say that they signify how we
interpret the license. Contributors can be asked to waive
rights to content they add to the site (where they are the
sole originators of the material, and not merely importing
content that has already been published elsewhere) even
above and beyond the terms of the specific license, and equally
they can be asked to not pursue some rights specified
That can't be done with any content added to wikipedia prior to the
license update makeing such waive useless if not actively damaging.
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geni