On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
<snip> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_contact_role_accounts does say it is a copyright matter; but the page linked to doesn't seem to spell that out. Perhaps it should.
Charles
As I understand it, there used to be a general concern that the only way the GFDL could be held to be compatible with pseudonymity was if there was a 1-to-1 mapping between pseudonyms and human beings.
I'm not sure that was ever actually looked into, since it seems to me that many-to-many would be just as good, as long as you realised and confirmed you were asking to be attributed with a vague identifier (like 99% of humanity does when it picks a name someone else already has or had).
In any case, role accounts are in all practical terms regarded merely an accountability issue these days. Which is probably why no page goes into detail on the copyright matter.
Harry
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