RE: Wikipedia: one document or many? was Re: [Wikipedia-l] FDL used to stifledistribution of articles

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, The Cunctator wrote:

> How is the former interpretation harder for redistributors? Us saying
> the entire Wikipedia site is one Document doesn't mean that we're
> insisting that redistributor's entire websites are one Document.
>
> I guess the difference is that if single pages are "The Document" then
> redistribution is covered by 2. VERBATIM COPYING and not 5. MODIFIED
> DOCUMENTS.
>
> 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.

It would not be hard to add such a copyright notice, would it? So why not
do it? Just state the copyright holder as "various Wikipedia contributors"
rather than anything more specific, and add it to the bottom text where we
refer to the GNU/FDL.

Andre Engels