Re: One document or many, missing copyright notice

Andre Engels <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Martin Harper wrote:

> > We have a basic problem, which is that Wikipedia is missing a copyright
> > notice, which makes it impossible for redistributors to follow the
> > letter of the GFDL, among other things.
>
> Section 4D requires modifying redistributors to preserve any copyright notices
> present, but if there are no copyright notices present, then my interpretation
> would be that section 4D does not apply. I'd be interested to see how you reach
> the conclusion that we must have a copyright notice?

The ADDENDUM:

"To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the
 License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices
 just after the title page: (...)"

Also, 4E obliges a copyright notice (stating your copyright) if you use
someone else's GNU/FDL work.

Andre Engels
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