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Sorry for digging this back out, but I thought that minor edits can't be protected by copyright? If so, wouldn't be possible for a lot of the names to be removed from the list? Also, anonymous users *usually* make minor edits (doesn't change the content, eg. spelling). I understand that those edits wouldn't be marked as such, so someone would have to manually go through the diffs; however, it could end up reducing (or even eliminating!) the problem of showing IPs rather than proper names (the problem is that it doesn't look professional).
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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.
--SJ, who is very curious what said book is about _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l