Hoi, The Zwijntje picture is actually one that is rather special. I use it as an avatar on many of my profiles. When people abuse this picture, it may hurt me. There is another aspect as well, I am not arguing about attribution to the nth degree of foolishness. It is also very unlikely that I will go to court over my IP. This is where I am utterly different from the RIAA because it is part of their business model.
So in essence, it is normal to attribute material using the best practices. The GFDL was long considered to be a best practice by me. This is no longer the case for the type of material that we deal with in Wikipedia and Commons. Certainly not following the arguments that I have heard so far from the proponents of staying with the GFDL for WMF projects. The irony is that it iseven the FSF that agrees that we are better off with the CC-by-sa. Thanks, GerardM
2009/2/4 Jesse Plamondon-Willard pathoschild@gmail.com
Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
When you do not like the notion that in real life people want a clean print, you will find that your legalistic approach hardly survives the
real
world. There are people who like their jeans with labels. I remove them
if I
can. In a way you take the position of the RIAA.
And yet you release your images under a license that requires attribution (among other requirements). You're in no position to complain about barriers if you put them up yourself.
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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