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

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 15:28:26 UTC 2007


On 11/09/2007, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> As just to show how impractical - there are 14 requirements for
> modified versions, of those 14:
> * A is broken by Wikipedia (no different title is given)
> * B is broken (author of the new version and authors of the previous
> version are not given on what should reasonably be considered the
> title page)

I would dissagree.

> * C is broken (wikipedia is mentioned on the 'title page', but not
> being a formal entity can't be the publisher, that is, I guess, the
> WMF)

No WMF is a service provider. Publisher is the author.

> * D is trivially adhered to (there are no copyright notices on
> Wikipedia pages, so they are indeed kept)
> * E is broken (the copyright notice as required by the GFDL is not shown)

See that notice at the end of the article

> * F is broken only in a trivial way (the permission is shown, but not
> after the copyright notices, since they aren't shown)


> * G is trivially kept (there are no invariant sections and cover
> texts, so they are kept as far as they exist)
> * H is possibly adhered to (the issue is whether having a link is
> sufficient to consider the GFDL is 'included')
> * I is broken (our history does not include the title or the publisher
> of the modified version)

Publisher is the author. Title is the version title.

-- 
geni



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