On 8/26/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/24/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/25/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
But all text is under one license. The problem isn't about attributing the photographer, the problem is about the numerous different licenses for images. As this is the case for images only, the solution is to include THE LICENSE, not the photographer, under the image caption.
Of course, the licenses, except for PD are generally not understandable by mere mortals for images, and one common ones appears not to apply to images at all, but that's another story.
Many editors, including myself, license our text under other licences;
the
Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike and Attribution licences are
common,
as is releasing the text into the public domain. The latter is not too
big a
deal (although you can argue morally the author should be credited, and
we
should specify that parts of the text are in the public domain), but the fact is, Greg is probably right about the need for consistency in
treating
different types of content.
Johnleemk
So, when you edit a Wikipedia article, you contribute your text under another license, how?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multi-licensing
When different things are different, there might be a reason to dreat
them differently. A photograph is an entity in itself, while a word here and there, and sentences here and there, even an entire article in Wikipedia is seldom ever the contribution of only one editor, and is not generally taken, except for mirrors, like a photograph, as an entire usable object.
Whole paragraphs are certainly reusable content, and I suspect Greg was correct in stating that most articles are the product of one or two editors. I'm still not sure if anyone other than myself has made major edits to articles like [[Second Malaysia Plan]] and [[Ketuanan Melayu]].
Photographs are not text, nor vice versa.
Certainly, but when there are similarities, there is a case for consistency in how we approach those similar areas.
KP
Johnleemk