"Magnus Manske" magnus.manske@web.de schrieb:

If the GFDL really requires that list *on the same document* (can't be really the same page, think printed version again), can't we declare the whole wikipedia as one giant document in itself? [Translation to legalese would be required]

The GFDL really requires that; furthermore, it specifies _where_ in the document it must be:

"List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement."

Where title page is defined as:

"The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself, plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the beginning of the body of the text."

Thus, the GNU/FDL not only requires us to put the 5 main authors on the page, it requires us to put the last author plus the 5 main authors of the previous version directly under the title of the page. Calling the whole thing a single document, it means we have to do so on the Main Page at least.

Andre Engels