On 5/15/06, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
It seems there was problems with not linking to the image page, so image license information was not shown and they were afraid of GFDL problems. The first idea i had to solve that was to show a text similar of the redirected pages. "You've been redirected through Image:Foo. [[See Image info]]" On a reread Magnus Manske suggered so (see #18) but was forgotten. Would be any problem with that approach?
Not just GFDL. Most free content licenses require attribution to be provided.
We've previous received complaints from copyright holders when their CC-BY-SA-2.0 content was copied from commons to en (for protection) without attribution data.
Most licenses require us to provide adequate attribution in a manner which is standard for our format. It would be highly inadvisable to make attribution on the main page less accessible (causing copyright complaints from people over those) or more accessible (providing basis for complaints elsewhere in the Wiki).
I believe the the Mangus Manske suggestion would make attribution data far too obscured.