Editing GFDL violation

A [[GFDL]] vilation is a violation of the [[GNU]] Free Documentation License.

Many '''[[GFDL]]''' violations occur when [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s fail to provide links to source materials.  The licence requires users to "Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document" if it is in fact given in the document, not in associated text added by a service.

When they republish [[GFDL]] text that has been published by other providers, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], the largest and best known source of [[GFDL]] content on the net, some providers omit the link to the location where it can be edited, corrected or otherwise fixed.

Other types of GFDL violations include:
*failing to credit the top five contributors when a document is exported via XML - ''this is quite difficult to do without an [[interwiki identity standard]]''
*failing to permit retrieval of any page's source text, even to [[trolls]]
*failing to respect the status of [[Secondary Section]]s and [[Invariant Section]]s or respect the obligations implied by the latter

[[Wikipedia]] has complicated matters with its policy of forcing other [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s to provide links to itself if any text is similar to any other GFDL text that has been published via [[Wikipedia]] (which legally and technically is only a user interface).  While it is the largest and best known source, it is deliberately NOT the authoratitive or most quotable source for any particular topic.  Accordingly it is seriously detrimental to the [[GFDL corpus]] to have all links on all topics lead to Wikipedia.  The license implies that the best and most authoritative version be linked to, not just the first place where the material appeared.

[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16551 The Inquirer] ran an article on this which asked for [mailto:fcassia@sdf.lonestar.org email regarding violations].