[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Sterkebak <sterkebak at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
> correct me if i am wrong but i don't see the problem. if a take a pic
> today and put it on commons with a name in the author place. that pic
> is free under the licence. if you change the name of a user the name
> on the pic can stay te same. or am i looking at the wrong place for
> the problem?

I think most authors would be outraged at this and consider it an
unethical action.  When a picture claims it was authored by "User:Foo"
it isn't just an opaque text label, it's also connecting it to an
account and any mismatch would be very misleading.