2009/1/21 Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com:
IT'S ABSOLUTELY FALSE THAT GFDL HAS A PRINCIPAL AUTHOR CLAUSE.
This clause only refers to a title page. READ THE LICENSE PLEASE. Wikipedia hasn't such a thing.
I've already explained our position on this issue in the prior thread on the topic; we do not share the interpretation that the change tracking obligations in the GFDL are relevant to the attribution terms we use under CC-BY-SA; we do believe that the principal authors requirement and the established practices regarding re-use under the GFDL are relevant.
The attribution issue is so divisive, however, that I increasingly wonder whether it wouldn't be sensible to add at least a set of preferences to the licensing vote to better understand what people's preferred implementation would look like, within the scope of what we consider to be legally defensible parameters.
Erik