On 12/21/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Images shouldn't have a special status. The attribution of the authors should be part of the article too. That's what the GFDL requires, not that the attribution be "a click away".
You've not actually read the GFDL have you?
... I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there is no section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence. K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications", Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.
In any case, the technological nuance of Wikipedia's user interface isn't really a matter for the licenses.. It is normal on wikis for attribution to be kept out of the working document. To claim that the license wouldn't permit it would be equivalent to claiming that every page or even every chapter in a book had to relist the authors.
The CC attribution (2.0) terms used on the flickr images which have caused this discussion, which are simmlar...
"If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of the Original Author if supplied; the title of the Work if supplied; to the extent reasonably practicable, the Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work, unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing information for the Work;"
"reasonable to the medium or means" Which is exactly what the image page is intended to be...