Of course, even though hotlinking is allowed technically, you still need to comply to the licensing terms for those media files, e.g. give attribution to the author and put a link to the license text.
-- Hay On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all the answers guys! > > Rayson > > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> 2009/8/7 Platonides <[email protected]> >>> >>> We shouldn't encourage hotlinking. >>> Technically, it's not an issue but you shouldn't consider it a >>> "supported" usage either. Basically, you're on your own. >> >> Don't matter, I'm an old wikipedian... deeply involved into the spirit of >> the project. Nevertheless, I work too into other web projects, and when I >> feel that an image deserves to be shared for its content and instructional >> character, I upload it into Commons. I keep a backup of all my images >> obviuosly. :-) >> >> -- >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
