On 12/24/05, Dariusz Siedlecki <datrio(a)gmail.com> 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 all of the authors in the _full dumps. It is your
responsibility to download the attribution if you want it. The GFDL
obligates us to provide it, and we have fulfilled that obligation we
are not required to shove it down your throat if you do not wish to
download it.
Your complaint implies that someone could not distribute a GFDLed book
on the web in page-per-chapter form because only the title page has
attribution, clearly this can not be the case.
As far as the mirrors, if they are failing to conform to the GFDL, you
should take up that issue with them and not with Wikimedia.