On 8/26/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Set against that is the fact that many of the photographers are not Wikipedia contributors; their images have been brought in from elsewhere, with licenses that require attribution.
No one has argued that we should not provide attribution.
Nor is the origin of the works relevant on that point: The licenses most Wikimedians use for their photographs have requirements equal to or stricter than the requirements of images that come from the outside.
We provide attribution even when the image licensing doesn't require us to do so.