Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/22/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
So you can release a photograph as GFDL if you do not hold the copyright to it? Is this fair dinkum?
No. Check the {{GFDL}} template. It's not a release, it's an assertion. If you stamp the photo {{GFDL}}, you're simply saying that the person who took it has previously released it - a different kind of sin, that may or not let you sleep better at night.
For instance, if my wife takes a picture of me, I ask her to release it under GFDL so it can be on WP and she agrees, I can legitimately do the uploading and GFDL-tagging myself, crediting her as photographer. We do take it on a certain amount of faith that I'm representing the situation truthfully, but given that the GFDL requires that the creator of the work be identified, a skeptic would in theory have enough info to contact her directly and confirm the license.
Stan