[WikiEN-l] Aneurysm

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 09:58:51 UTC 2007


On 6/10/07, michael west <michawest at gmail.com> wrote:
> GNU lisense simply states that we should credit Wikipedia.

Which part of the GFDL do you claim says this?

> It would be
> impossible to quote every single editor.
>  The  History tab is surely there as a tool against vandalism ON
> EXISTING articles. As most editors are anonymous, it is just foolish
> to suggest that every editor be credited. Nobody is saying that the
> article existed somewhere else or that many editors contributed to it.
> They use those article in the sense that "this was on wikipedia" but
> no longer. The GNU lisense covers that.

GFDL requires that you credit the authors. If the author choses to be
credited as geni that is their choice.

-- 
geni



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