Re: Re: [Wikipedia-l] FDL used to stifle distribution of articles

Bryan Derksen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
Message-ID <5.1.0.14.2.20031130120726.01fff9e0@shawmail>
At 11:55 AM 11/30/2003 +0000, Martin Harper wrote:
> > The licence only requires five names attached to the work; that's a single
> > line of small text, which can be tucked down at the bottom of the page
> > somewhere discreet.
>
>INCORRECT! The GFDL requires you to list them on the "Title Page", which is
>defined in section 1:
>
>The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself, plus 
>such following
>pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material this License requires 
>to appear in
>the title page. For works in formats which do not have any title page as 
>such, "Title
>Page" means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
>preceding the beginning of the body of the text.

Does Main count as a title page? If so, we'd only need to come up with five 
names for the whole entire Wikipedia and put them there. Seems even easier 
in that case.

BTW, there's no need to shout.

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