[Foundation-l] Delete of Article History and GFDL

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 01:12:23 UTC 2008


2008/9/14 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> This is surely excessive.  Edits since the copyvio may very well have
> bent the copyvio passages far out of recognition.  Remember too that
> copyright does not apply to ideas, but to the expression of those ideas.
>
> Ec

Problem is that they are are derivative works of a copyvio and if you
try and remove the problematical intermediate edits you hit GFDL
issues. This is why it is important to catch copyvios fast.



-- 
geni



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