On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/11 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
Granted, including full change histories is overkill
Thanks for acknowledging this.
The GFDL (including prior versions) deals with author names for three different purposes:
- author credit on the title page;
- author copyright in the copyright notices;
- author names for tracking modifications in the history section.
That may have been the intention of the author of the GFDL (though you haven't proven this). But the simple fact of the matter is that the history section *does* provide credit to *all* the authors.
Thus, the rest of your convoluted argument is irrelevant.
There is a legitimate
argument that, under a literal reading of the GFDL, any re-user _also_ has to include a full copy of the change history.
The problem with that argument is that "the change history" isn't in the format or location that "the section entitled 'History' would be".