Hoi, The change of the license will happen not only for Wikipedia but for all projects as I understand things.
When you do not like the notion that in real life people want a clean print, you will find that your legalistic approach hardly survives the real world. There are people who like their jeans with labels. I remove them if I can. In a way you take the position of the RIAA. Thanks, 2009/2/3 Michael Peel <[email protected]> > > On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:01, Sam Johnston wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hoi, > >> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance > >> between cheap > >> and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on > >> the back is > >> two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is > >> that it is > >> nice to come up with "solutions". They have to be practical in the > >> real > >> world. If a proposed solution adds enough overhead, the effect > >> will be that > >> it will not be accepted a solution. > > > > Thanks for another practical example of attribution stifling reuse - > > too bad if you ever wanted to print something like this: > > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikimediaMosaicCapture.png > > > > I'd be a lot more accepting of a 'Wikipedia' and/or the Wikipedia logo > > printed discretely in the bottom right corner of my poster than one or > > more meaningless usernames too. > > You're overlooking the large range (with a high skew) of the number > of authors on images and are instead focussing on the extremal value. > For my pictures, I am currently the single author on all of them > (although that may not be the case in the future). They are released > under a license that requires attribution. If you don't like that, > use another picture. > > Where larger numbers of authors for images are concerned, you're > arguing your viewpoint, not the legal situation. Unless you can argue > fair use, then you're bound by the licenses that the images were > released under originally. If those licenses say that the author must > be attributed, then you must attribute the author. You can't > whitewash over that. > > Two final points. Note that all of my images (and edits) are done > under my real name; not everyone's username is meaningless. Also, > Wikimedia (inc. or exc. Commons) is not Wikipedia. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
