[WikiEN-l] Acknowledgements sections on articles

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 23:00:47 UTC 2008


> '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.

Follow the footnote, it says:

"^ GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts."



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