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