[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

[Anthony]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>  In particular, it *doesn't* seem to be necessary to reprint
>  the full wiki editing history of an article to comply with the GFDL's
>  "publication history section" requirement, especially since we don't
>  present it in the original transparent source as such.
>
>  More importantly, since Bertelsmann are definitely not doing so
>  (it would take much more space than the actual stub articles to print
>  the full editing history for each one), and presumably their lawyers
>  have vetted that as okay, this provides some good precedent for other
>  reusers.
>
>  -Mark
>
Violations of the law are not precedent.  It's only a precedent if
Bertelsmann is sued and wins in a court within the same jurisdiction
as you.

I assume Bertelsmann is going to at least be listing the names of all
the authors in order to satisfy the basic essence of the history
requirement.  The GFDL makes no requirement to "reprint the full wiki
editing history".  It says "If there is no section Entitled "History"
in the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors, and
publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page, then add an item
describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence."