On 11/19/05, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2005/11/19, Michael Crouch
<creidieki(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'm trying to improve the English Wikipedia's documentation on article
moves, and I had a GFDL question. I hope this is the right place;
feel free to point me elsewhere.
Articles on En are often split in a cut-and-paste way, with material
from one article removed and put into another article. None of the
documentation (that I can find) mentions anything about maintaining
the necessary authorship information.
I've been told several times (on [[Wikipedia:Help desk]] and
[[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)]]) to simply mention in the edit
summary "This material moved from [[Foo]]". Is this adequate for the
GFDL requirements? I know we might not have a perfect solution to
this, but I didn't want to add anything to the documentation without
making sure it was correct.
Simply speaking: No, it is not enough according to the GNU/FDL, but
Wikipedia is interpreting the GNU/FDL so freely anyway that adding this to
it does not differ much either.
Wikipedia has no legal right to "interpet the GFDL", when people save
text they give permission to use the text under a certain license, and
if you don't follow that license you're guilty of copyright
infringement.