On 12 December 2011 20:05, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote: > On 12/12/2011 3:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote: >> I think what he means is that under most European copyright regimes, >> an author has far-reaching personality rights, which include the right >> to have the work accredited to them whenever it is republished. The >> terms of use, in his feeling, hollow out this right by redefining the >> obligatory credit part of the GFL and CC-BY-SA in such a way that one >> can mention all authors by doing something that does not include >> mentioning any of them. > > That may be the case, but any contributions to the projects is made > under an unequivocal grants of permission to redistribute under those > terms; the TOS only restate the inevitable, they're not putting forth > any new concept there.
I believe in certain jurisdictions such terms are automatically null and void. The moral rights can't be waived. I expect that is the cause of the objection. I'm not really sure what alternative we have, though. We switched to the current license terms because we realised requiring re-users to credit every single person that made a non-trivial edit to the page was impractical and hardly any re-users were actually doing that. In the jurisdictions in question, re-users probably have no choice, but I guess that just means it is impractical to re-use Wikipedia legally in those jurisdictions. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l