Dariusz Siedlecki wrote:
The GFDL license states:
B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement.
Now, you see - in the current database dumps, which are used on most of the Wikipedia mirrors (both online and offline), there's only the very last contributor.
Wouldn't it be wiser to add the authors of the article, even if their revisions should stay empty?
We provide the complete data dumps, with the complete history as per the license. You can also fetch smaller subsets of the data for convenience, but it's all there in the same place.
If you redistribute subsets of the data yourself without the full data, it's up to you to comply with the license.
If there's something specific we could or should do to make this easier, first run it by our legal team at juriwiki-l to see what they think is actually needed. I'm not going to play license lawyer...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)