Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> writes:
I would not feel comfortable with the idea that
Microsoft or Yahoo
could take our content, make an encyclopedia out of it
(redistributable, of course), and *not* include an invariant section
amounting to a link back to us.
Regardless of whether we mandate an invariant linkback section, they
would have to attribute the source correctly, anyway. See 4.D. and
4.I. and, especially 4.J.:
[You may publish modified versions if you]
Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it
was based on. These may be placed in the "History" section. You may
omit a network location for a work that was published at least four
years before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of
the version it refers to gives permission.
I frankly don't get why we need an invariant section for linkback. IMO
it would be enough to point at the GFDL, and recommend a linkback as
a way that would satisfy us.
--
Robbe