[WikiEN-l] How to be GFDL compliant

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 5/15/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> > On 5/12/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 5/12/06, Steve Block <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >>> If they are and they aren't citing authors, aren't they in breach of the
> >>> GFDL.  And if that's the case, can we sue?  Please?
> >> The Wikimedia Foundation doesn't hold the copyrights over Wikimedia
> >> content, it is merely a user that must follow the terms of the GFDL
> >> like any mirror or fork. Wikimedia could, however, provide financial
> >> or legal assistance to the authors whose copyright is infringed in a
> >> lawsuit.
> >>
> > That would be fairly hypocritical, though, since Wikimedia itself
> > doesn't even follow the GFDL.
> >
>
> *hauls out text of the GFDL*
>
> Right. Section 6: Collection of Documents:
>
In order to be in compliance with the GFDL you need to be in
compliance with the whole thing, not just one section.

Anthony

> The articles themselves are licensed under the GFDL, and Wikipedia is a
> collection of articles - so the individual copies are replaced by a
> single copy *included in the collection*. IANAL but it's good enough for
> me, /and most other contributors/. What's *not* good enough is mirroring
> us without even *attempting* GFDL compliance, at least to the same
> extent that Wikipedia itself complies with the GFDL.
>
And how would you suggest they do that?

Anthony