[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

[George Herbert]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My recollection (and it's been a year since I was head-down in the DB
>>  tables, so it may be wrong) is that the Database stores all the
>>  changes by user ID not username - so, if you change an IDs associated
>>  name (the usurped account being renamed) then the ownership / change
>>  history changes along with it transparently.
>
> True, but not relevant. They go from being attributed to the name you
> chose to being attributed to some other name, that's not preserving
> the section entitled "History".

I don't think we've ever interpreted the GFDL in the sense that the
author credits have to be invariant.  Just accurate enough and
traceable enough.  The GFDL doesn't require an absolute here...

I believe that you're inventing a problem where none exists...


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com