[Foundation-l] The license situation

[Casey Brown]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:

> Right now we tell the newspapers to give credit to "Wikipedia" but this
> is in fact a little bit fishy, but it is the best we can do given the
> present code - we can't tell them exactly who wrote the content. Note
> also that the problem isn't really much easier when we have to deal with
> "main authors" and "minor authors".
>
>
We do not tell them to credit "Wikipedia". "Wikipedia" does not create
content, it hosts it.  We tell people to credit "Wikipedia contributors" and
add a link to the article, which also gives a link to the history page with
all the authors named explicitly.

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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