David Gerard wrote:
2009/1/24 The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'm not sure why we're so stressed out
about getting things exactly legally
right, since once edit histories for anything created before 2002 / late
2001 were wiped out, any of those articles don't have an accurate author
list.
If you take out the subthreads of Anthony trolling and being fed with
responses, you'll see there's much less to this thread than it seems
at first glance.
- d.
I think you are precisely inaccurate on this point. Quite the
contrary. I seriously feel that the part where Anthony is
taking on all comers, is masking the fact that there is a
serious shift underway in the way WMF is operating.
WMF used to really be a (choose a heavy-weight designation) pound
gorilla in the GFDL users pool.
When we transition to the Creative Commons universe, we will
never again regain that status, and a combative stance will
do us no favors.
So at the very minimum, it would well serve us to know what the
established standards are within CC-BY-SA, in particular focusing
on the "BY" part.
Yours faithfully,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen