[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue Sep 11 14:50:21 UTC 2007


On 9/11/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Surely a title behind a link that few people ever use is not "a
> > prominent place preceding the the beginning of the body of the text".
> > As for it being available with the author list - given that we don't
> > HAVE an author list as required by the GFDL, that's a hollow phrase.
>
> The history page includes an author list. It's not on the "title
> page", admittedly, but that's a pretty minor distinction. I'm no
> lawyer, but I'd say any violations of the GFDL on Wikipedia are de
> minimis.
>
Hiding the five primary authors on "the history page" rather than
prominently declaring them next to the title is not, in my opinion, de
minimis.



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