On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Hay (Husky) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Not a real concern to me... as I don't have a website or blog, and I don't use media files from commons outside of Wikipedia, and all of my uploads (over 200 photos & videos) were released into the public domain. Since from a traffic point of view hotlinking is acceptable, may be we should delete this section then: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Hotlinking Rayson > > -- 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 > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
