User:AuronFtw/post1

Tanaric flagged all our (ported) policy articles for deletion, reason given: "Your presentation of this derivative work violates sections 4b and 4d of the license the original work is released under." And it linked to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode, which is the by-nc-sa license.

Naturally, I asked Tanaric how exactly he'd like us to attribute each article. He englishified some of the legalese for me, basically pointing out that "4b states that you need to provide a copy (or a link to) the by-nc-sa license with every derivative work you display. Which means it needs to be at the bottom of the page in a footer, most likely." And that "4d's the tricky one. It states that attribution for original authors of a derivative work must occur in an equivalent manner as attribution for the authors of that derivative. Which means that text capture + subpage isn't appropriate." I asked for clarification of the requirements of 4d, and he elaborated... "Similar to what was done for the builds themselves, the policy articles need history imported and linked."

So, we need to use the GuildWiki database dumps to retrieve histories for each of the policies we ported over. Once that bit is done, we need to link to the by-nc-sa license on every policy page (footnote at the bottom, possibly?).