[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 17:40:00 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the edit has been reverted I see no reason why it would need to be
> attributed to anyone since it isn't there any more. The GFDL requires
> us to attribute anything we use but we don't have to use everything
> that's posted.

This is tricky ground though. Somebody could decide to selectively
delete meaningful contributions from which the current version of a
page are derived. The only edits you can selectively delete under the
GFDL are those which did not serve as a basis for later derivatives.

--Andrew Whitworth



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