[Commons-l] Yet another GFDL violation in a big newspaper

[Florian Straub]

"geni" <geniice at gmail.com> wrote on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:40 PM:

> On 08/01/2008, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
>> That sounds like a thing we could do anyway. Maybe we could add something
>> additional to the link "Reuse this image" in {{information}} to the 
>> license
>> tags. I'm thinking about a text that you can copy to your 
>> website/newspaper
>> in order to get a valid credit line in dependence of the license. Maybe a
>> box saying: "You can use this picture, if you put the following line 
>> under
>> it".
>>
>> We could even use some JS magic in order to insert the author mentioned 
>> in
>> {{information}}
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Flo
>
> I think that that is not remotely in keeping within the terms of the 
> license.

If you mean GFDL, you're right. We can of course also include "... copy and 
link the license text to the picture ..."