[Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 21:59:48 UTC 2009


Hoi,
Your wish for attribution comes at a monetory cost so the difference is
negligible. They want their reward for the creation for IP and so do you.
Thanks,
       GerardmM

2009/2/3 Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>

>
> On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:39, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > The change of the license will happen not only for Wikipedia but
> > for all
> > projects as I understand things.
>
> The change of license can only apply to wiki-created GFDL works,
> which does not apply to the images. They will remain with their
> current licenses.
>
> > When you do not like the notion that in real life people want  a clean
> > print, you will find that your legalistic approach hardly survives
> > the real
> > world. There are people who like their jeans with labels. I remove
> > them if I
> > can. In a way you take the position of the RIAA.
> > Thanks,
>
> You still buy the jeans with labels attached; it's up to you if you
> remove them later.
>
> The RIAA's stance is completely different to mine. They want you to
> pay money (preferably repeatedly); I only care about attribution.
>
> Mike
>
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