Magnus Manske wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Would you mind talking to our legal counsel about that? It would be crazy of us to go splashing in features for "legal" reasons that don't actually exist.
There is no legal necessity for the "list authors" feature. I never said that. I said that it is currently very inconvenient to fulfil the demands of the GFDL, because you have to download the entire wikipedia, including history, to correctly publish a single article. What good is it to have an open license if taking advantage of that is a PITA? (I'm talking non-geeks here, and geeks who have a slow machine/internet connection/etc.)
There was a barely related discussion over on wiken-l. I suggested a change, which would allow a form of anonymity. The anonymity was not the significant part. However, the responses included claims where other licenses besides just the GFDL are used. Therefore, there is a need for the list of authors for attribution with those licenses.
Jonathan