On 5/20/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
There's nothing wrong with it. We simply don't require it.
So after this email I went ahead and attempted to contact about 9 copyright holders whos works were from stock.xchng, it would have been 10 but one of them already had all his work taken off stock.xchng for it being copyright violating (trying to get clarification on that from stock.xchng).
My emails basically said "I noticed your picture is being used in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia article on [link]" gush gush how wonderful and how it improves the article then "I noticed that it is labeled public domain, I know stock.xchng only gives you a few licensing options, and I wanted to know if this was an accurate description of how you intended to license your work?"
I've received three replies back so far, one indicating that her work was indeed "free for any use" but two who complained that stock.xchng isn't clear in their licensing and that their work isn't PD. One of them said his work is cc-by-nc-sa, and I've updated one of his images accordingly (but since most of the images have no attribution, it's difficult to go find all of his photos).
I find it really amusing that we went through the trouble of having a vote on this when we could have just asked the copyright holders.