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

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
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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