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A [[GFDL]] vilation is a violation of the [[GNU]] Free Documentation License. | A [[GFDL]] vilation is a violation of the [[GNU]] Free Documentation License. | ||
Many '''[[GFDL]]''' violations occur when | 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 diificult to do without a [[wiki 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 | |||
[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16551 The Inquirer] ran an article on this which asked for [mailto:fcassia@sdf.lonestar.org email regarding violations]. | [http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16551 The Inquirer] ran an article on this which asked for [mailto:fcassia@sdf.lonestar.org email regarding violations]. | ||