2009/1/21 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > A lot of the problems you are having there are because you are trying > to group things into "print" and "online". The correct dichotomy is > "online" and "offline". Of course you are going to have problems > classifying DVDs if your classifaction systems assumes all electronic > data is only available on the internet. I don't see a problem with > listing authors in fairly small print on the back of a t-shirt, seems > perfectly reasonable to me. If instead of names there's just a URL on > the t-shirt, does that mean I can't where it in China since people > seeing it won't have any way (without significant technical know-how) > to view the list of authors?
Nor would you be able to access the list of authors on a mirror that carries it by reference. Whether you draw the distinction between print or non-print, or between "online" and "offline", is always somewhat arbitrary, as content can change from one state to another very easily. (A file downloaded to your harddisk becomes an offline copy; so does an email attachment.) A licensing regime that relies on such arbitrary transformations of attribution is fundamentally unworkable for re-users. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
