On 5/17/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/17/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
1. The image is 100x100 px or smaller, and ( 2a. the image is PD, or 2b. the same image also appears on the linked-to page and, there, has the old behavior of linking to the full-size image plus its metainformation. )2c. the image is GFDL or CC-SA with no attribution requirements.
(I don't see the necessity in providing readily accessible attribution info for an image where the author didn't request it)
And how do we tell that the image is "GFDL without requested attribution?".
... This will be a nightmare to police, and I don't see how we can easily get the software to enforce it.
Perhaps some kind of bit that only administrators can set on the image to permit this kind of usage? Still nothing easy to impliment.
Also, I've been checking, and many of these navigation icons have attribution requirements. Most seem to be LGPLed, taken from varrious free software packages.