[Wikimedia-l] Is the capability to delete usernames compatible with the CCBYSA license?

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 09:21:37 UTC 2013


Andre Engels, 23/10/2013 11:10:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If we go this way, then none of the authors who added legitimate
>> content in the past but had it deleted later should be credited. We
>> would need a tool like "git blame" [1] to generate the author list.
>>
>
> Not necessary - "need not be credited" does not imply "should not be
> credited".

Indeed. It's just a feature request, and an ancient one: 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2994

Nemo



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