Wednesday, 23 January 2008, Rama Rama wrote:
* formulise the request in such a way that a simple
"OK" from the
user is sufficient.
Careful with this one. "OK" is rarely a clear enough assertion of
authorship and consent to license. Better then to send a message with a
boilerplate response and say "reply with this if you agree with what it
says".
We run into this problem all the time, and it's mostly because new
contributors ask artists for Wikipedia-only permission. Then they find
out that this isn't sufficient and immediately rush to ask the
artist "do you grant Wikipedia 'the GNU license'?" and so on, instead
of using
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
directly.
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Alex Nordstrom
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