On 7/26/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What particularly irks me about Flickr is that
people can change the
licenses on their photos; I came across a Featured Picture on Commons
the other day which had been uploaded in December 2005, tagged as
CC-BY-SA 2.0, had been uploaded to Flickr in November 2005, but when I
viewed the photo in July 2006 the tag on Flickr was CC-NC-ND 2.0. The
worst part is that the image on Flickr has no "history" page, and the
Internet Archive doesn't have the page, so there's no way I can verify
that the image was indeed tagged that way when it was uploaded to
Commons.
Even more unfortunately, enough people upload stuff with the wrong
license that we can't just assume the stated license was actually
correct at upload time, either.
-Matt
Luckily that is often (but not always) quite obvious.
Concerning the more restrictive license. Isn't there a rule in Creative
Commons that you can't change from a more open to a more restricted license?
If so, maybe we or CC should mail flickr and see if we get a response.
Garion