[Commons-l] One new and one old tool

[Florian Straub]

"Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote on Saturday, February 
10, 2007 3:50 AM:

> On 10/02/07, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Seems I had a little double output there ....
>>
>> I fixed it and added a small bonus to it, see for yourself :)
>
> OK, looks better.
> I am surprised you can't get the Flickr user's name. Are you using the
> Flickr API? I think it should be possible. Since both the licenses we
> use are "BY" (attribution) I think getting the username is a good
> idea.

I did and it always worked. Which picture did you try?


> Also, in the permission field I would either put 'see below', or put
> 'licensed under the Creative Commons [Attribution|Attribution
> ShareAlike] license, version 2.0".

Is that really necessary?


> Also, in the case of trying to get the info for a non-free license, it
> should probably refuse to produce any output, instead of 'NO FREE
> LICENSE - DON'T UPLOAD TO COMMONS' (which is nice, but I hardly expect
> people to read and follow such instructions :))

Good point ... I'll think about it.

Regards,

Flo