On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/1/5  <[email protected]>:
>> <<In a message dated 1/5/2009 3:48:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>> [email protected] writes:
>>
>> Mostly  because from time to time they have actually moved
>> content from one article  from another (the rest of the time you can
>> nail them for persistently lying  in edit summaries). Given the format
>> of the mediawiki software and the GFDL  it is pretty much impossible to
>> do such merges without violating  copyright>>
>>
>> Could you explain a bit more why you think that merges violate  copyright?
>> Thanks
>> Will Johnson
>
> When you merge the wording of the GFDL requires that you preserve the
> history (a really really bad choice of words). Can be done close
> enough through a history merge but most users don't/can't do that.
>
>
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> geni
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Won't it satisfy the licence just to point to the other articles
history in the edit summary?

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