[WikiEN-l] Acknowledgements sections on articles

[Philip Sandifer]

On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Peter Ansell wrote:

> 'All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
> License' at the bottom of every page
>
> See Section 4.K on the wikipedia hosted page [1]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
>
> I was never shown the "no invariant sections" statement when I
> contributed my past entries, and to change the license would be to
> relicence everyones contributions...
>
> It is entirely logical that if someone is contributing as part of an
> academic grant that they should be able to acknolwedge that.

Not at present an issue, as nobody added invariant sections or  
acknowledgements previously. Thus there are no previous contributions  
with invariant sections to be irritated about. Furthermore, the terms  
do not forbid the creation of derivative works with invariant sections  
- that is, we are not creating a new license called "GFDL Without  
Invariant Sections." We are saying "By hitting the submit button you  
are saying that the text in this window is GFDL and has no invariant  
sections."

-Phil