[WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

[Jay Litwyn]

"Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:b8ceeef70906112226t56603352y27a9fc22fbea996d at mail.gmail.com...
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Sam Korn<smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (Photo: <a
>> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament.jpg">Wikipedia</a>)
>>
>> I imagine that would satisfy *almost* everyone.
>
> Hell no. You didn't even credit the author.
>
> Photo: WikiWitch at Wikipedia, under GFDL.
>
> That's about the minimum you could get away with. You could probably
> ditch the "Wikipedia" actually, maybe link to their Wikipedia user
> page though.

If two people get the same idea, then I am thinking it is probably good.

> (In this case, the photo is actually PD, so it's all moot).

In GB, it might be PD, and probably even in this Colony of Canada. I do not 
know about anywhere else. It is only moot if the policy does not apply 
differently to images that you can copyright.

> Steve
>
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