[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"
Anthony
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Tue Apr 29 01:11:49 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
> > 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."
>
> Listing all the authors "as given on its Title Page" is a pretty empty
> requirement, since Wikipedia articles don't have any title page that
> lists any authors.
>
I've always taken "as given on its Title Page" to only modify
"publisher of the Document".
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