Sj wrote:
Someone in Boston is publishing a book in which he
would like to
include a few entire Wikipedia articles; he wrote me recently to ask
whether this had been done before, and precisely how he should go
about including the GFDL where, to clarify which sections of the
published work it covers, and how he should most perfectly comply with
the license (should he list main authors himself? all non-anon
authors? should he use pseudonyms or full names of both are
available? Do IP contributors ever include their real name on their
user page? Will it look funny to list pseudonyms as authors in what
is otherwise a scholarly text?).
If there are precedents, please point me to them. If anyone can
advise on this matter, please respond! Perhaps I should I contact the
FSF directly, but I thought I'd check with this list first.
I would definitely contact the FSF about this, regardless of what other
opinions you get. Not only do they have lawyers on staff, but it would
be helpful to make them aware of any issues that come up when trying to
use GFDL'd texts in practice, since it's fairly widely assumed that they
will eventually draft a new version of the GFDL to take into account
problems that have come up with the initial draft.
-Mark