On 10/23/13 11:10 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Strainu wrote:
Same argument in
different wording: None of the creativity that goes into the vandalizing
from version A to version B is present in version C. Thus, version C does
not fall under the copyright of the va
Andre Engels, 23/10/2013 11:10:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Strainu wrote:
If we go this way, then none of the authors who added legitimate
content in the past but had it deleted later should be credited. We
would need a tool like "git blame" [1] to generate the author list.
Not neces
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Strainu wrote:
> > Same argument in
> > different wording: None of the creativity that goes into the vandalizing
> > from version A to version B is present in version C. Thus, version C does
> > not fall under the copyright of the vandal. Which means that there
2013/10/23 Marco Chiesa :
> Actually, following the same philosophy, one should wonder whether the
> person reverting from version B to version C should be kept in the
> contributor's list. At the end of the day, version C is an exact copy of
> version A (i.e. no creative input of editor C), and ve
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Strainu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someone brought up an interesting issue: is it moral for the vandals
> to be credited as contributors to articles (especially when exporting
> the article as pdf)? After experimenting a little, it turns out that
> deleting the usernames f
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Strainu wrote:
>
> While morality is a subjective matter, a more interesting question is:
> is this behavior compatible with the CCBYSA license? Say we have
> version A of a text, vandalised in version B and reverted in revision
> C. Then version C is a work deri
Answer to the first question is very simple - C is derived from A, not
vandalized B revision.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Strainu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someone brought up an interesting issue: is it moral for the vandals
> to be credited as contributors to articles (especially when exporting
>
Hi,
Someone brought up an interesting issue: is it moral for the vandals
to be credited as contributors to articles (especially when exporting
the article as pdf)? After experimenting a little, it turns out that
deleting the usernames from the history removes them from the
contributor list.
While
