Hi Brion, I just re-read your response regarding changing the copyright notice. I have a solution to the "text" problem. We can change "text" to "content."
So the new and improved notice will read: "All content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See Wikipedia:Copyrights for suggested practices."
I will be posting this suggestion to Wikipedia talk:Sites that use Wikipedia for content.
-- Michael Becker
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11.02 To: A mailing list for discussing about the technical organization of theWikipedias Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Update to gfdl copyright notice needed
Michael Becker wrote:
Let me quote User:Dgrant "if the link text says GFDL, few people will bother going to it, at least I personally wouldn't, I've already read the GFDL before." He has a point, the notice is misleading in it's current form, and I think people are discouraged from reading the Copyright page b/c the link is titled "GFDL."
That sounds reasonable. Unless there's a huge objection I'll make the change tomorrow.
As a reminder for those listening in, the suggested new version of the notice reads:
"All text is available under the terms of the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License| GNU Free Documentation License]]. See [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] for suggested practices."
thus giving explicitly separate links for the license text and our explanation of what it means and how it applies.
(It's still got the "text" problem, but that's a separate can of worms.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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