[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[Michael Peel]

On 11 Jan 2009, at 21:46, Erik Moeller wrote:

> The GFDL (including prior versions) deals with author names for three
> different purposes:
>
> * author credit on the title page;
> * author copyright in the copyright notices;
> * author names for tracking modifications in the history section.
> ...
> In the context of
> Wikipedia, authors are not named as part of the copyright notice.

I'm curious: why isn't a copyright notice displayed at the bottom of  
each article, stating the copyright owners of the material?

That appears to be how GFDL is supposed to be used (as per "How to  
use this License for your documents"), taking "document" to mean an  
article. It's also standard practice to state the copyright owners  
(look at the large majority of webpages, or any book).

Mike