[wp-docs] Codex and the FSF

[Firas D.]

Podz wrote:

> Anthony Timberlake wrote:
>
>> What is the benefit of this?
>
>
> As I see it, someone could wander along, take a good long look at 
> codex, it's licence and protections and then do something that would 
> have us all yelling about that act being unfair, exploitative etc.
> I'd rather we closed the stable door first, and to do that, we need 
> information.
>
> P.

Podz, the only way someone can really exploit the codex is to take parts 
of it and print them under a non-gpl license, yeah? In which case the 
people who wrote the parts in question have a copyright issue at hand. I 
understand that whoever is in this position might not have the resources 
to sue a large publisher, but in that case, the infamy that comes from 
ripping off WordPress will do the publisher far more harm than good.

Now, if this situation were to arise, say, we'd need to know who has 
copyright over the articles, yup? Hence information. Well. Ask every 
user to supply a way to get in touch with them on their user page 
(website, email, etc), and figure it out through the revision history.

I know that you've been in search of a 'codex copyright holders' list. 
If you really want, I can explore the options that we have to figure out 
who has made more than 10 or so revisions on the WP articles and 
automagically generate the copyright holders list from that. It might 
require a dump of some parts of the codex db though. The upside is that 
it'll be far more accurate than the 'code copyright holders' list 
because (I assume) that one is updated manually, not sure by whom or 
under what criteria (is everyone who has submitted a nontrivial patch 
that got used listed there?)

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