[Foundation-l] Clickable images

[effe iets anders]

Sounds nice, but afaik almost every licence used demands to give
attribution. I think it is not very likely that we can alter the
image-policy in such a way that we don't need to give attribution for
every image (we are not even able to get all free images, as en: is
still allowing fair use, so all PD-like is something we can easily
forget imho)
So we *have* to think about clickable images, however I agree it would
be nice if we wouldn't have to because of all PD.

Lodewijk

2006/9/9, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> Hoi,
> There are two things to consider;
> * Pictures in our projects should be Free. This means that the pictures
> should be usable in any context.
> * Because many of our projects are not Free for simple re-use, there is
> a need to do stupid contortions by always show the license.
>
> It is imho better to sort out the underlying problem than to prevent
> things that improve usability. I think is really bad that it is now
> suggested not to have clickable images.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
>
> Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> > On 9/9/06, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> thank you for your reaction. I think your idea of putting the image in
> >> the page it points to is a good idea. But I would like to broaden the
> >> discussion a bit. We are now thinking about where it is used, and how
> >> we can talk it right. I think we should actually think about how we
> >> can use it in the broadest sense, so we can afterwards find out when
> >> we can use it. The point is that people will always come up with new
> >> uses of the template, and I think we should somehow state clear what
> >> is allowed and what not. I only know of the use in main pages, but it
> >> is also used broader I guess.
> >> It could be used for flags to link to countries, or for roads, to link
> >> the the article about it. (Like A1, A2 etc in
> >> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam ) So what are your thoughts
> >> about it when you forget about the main page, and think in general?
> >>
> >> Lodewijk
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Actually, it seems your example about motorways isn't an image but a
> > formatted text ;)
> >
> > Anyway, you're right to say we should make things clear. My opinion is:
> > clickable images should be avoided. The general policy is the
> > license-information should be available by simply clicking the image.
> > First-time visitors are a bit surprised by this, but if we start mixing
> > clickable and non-clickable images (that means respectively images pointing
> > to an article/portal and images pointing to their description page), the
> > situation will soon become a huge mess. Otherwise, people don't know where
> > they're going to land when clicking an image.
> >
> > In a nutshell: avoid clickable images.
> >
> > g.
> >
> >
>
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