--- The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:52, Axel Boldt wrote:
In order to be allowed to distribute a modified version of a GFDL document, you have to list the person responsible for the modification (section 4B).
No; the GFDL states you have to list "one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications".
Note: "entity". "The Wikipedia Contributors" is such an entity.
No. If Helga makes an edit somewhere, then the vast majority of the "Wikipedia Contributors" won't even know about it, and even if they did, they certainly have never agreed to be "responsible" for her work.
You might just as well use "Humanity" as the entity. Clearly, that's trying to circumvent the intended meaning of clause 4B.
Note also "one or more persons". Not "every person".
If Helga makes a modification, then there is only one person, Helga, responsible for it. "Every person" and "one or more persons" is the same in this case.
There is nothing in the GFDL that makes anonymous edits problematic.
There sure is.
Axel
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