2009/2/3 Brian <[email protected]>: > Where can I read about what, exactly, the spirit of the GFDL is? > I've already explained why flexible attribution is equivalent to full > attribution in a recent post. It's easy to do the reverse lookup from a > piece of content to its authors. Anyone wanting to know who the content > should be attributed can easily find that out. We can develop tools to make > it easier.
You can't read about exactly the the spirit of something is. The whole point of "spirit" is that is is separate to what to put into words. When you put it into words, something is lost. I expect there are plenty of discussions on the subject around if you look for them, though - you may want to start with http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > But back to your spirit argument. Why would a CC-Wiki that is more practical > about attribution be against the spirit of the GFDL? That depends on what the differences are. If there is anything particularly significant (and attributing "Wikipedia" rather than the actual author is significant), then you can't do it. The differences between GFDL and CC-BY-SA are basically just about the details of how you do things, rather than the end result, so there isn't a problem. (And even that is controversial.) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
