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.