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

On 30 Nov 2003 at 12:36, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Best then to infer "Wikipedia contributors" as the default content
> author. This is already done with our current link-back requirement. 
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

I would suggest "Wikipedia contributors, Nupedia contributors, FOLDOC 
contributors, authors of public domain text, and others, published by Wikimedia", 
which comes out to exactly five principal authors.

Merely linking back to Wikipedia does not satisfy section 4B, however much some 
people might wish it did. You would need to add some text on the front page of the 
website: something along the lines of:

"Written by Wikipedia contributors, Nupedia contributors, FOLDOC contributors, 
authors of public domain text, and others, modified and published by 
<AnotherPedia>"

This is where AnotherPedia is reusing content from Wikipedia, creating a Modified 
Version, under the assumption that Wikipedia is a single Document. Obviously there 
are other things they'd have to do too, some of which might or might not involve 
linking back to Wikipedia's home page, or individual articles.

-Martin "IANAL" Harper