[Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 2 23:38:11 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:
>
>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site
>> would be
>> "
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
>>
>> That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some
>> languages the attribution will take more than one message. Ooops...
>>
>> John
>
>
> You just need to provide a url to the article. Type wikipedia.org/articleinto your address bar and wait 5 seconds.


I actually was not aware that the terms now ask you to link not only to the
article, but to the license as well. That is a burden.


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