On 12/21/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Images shouldn't have a special status. The
attribution of the
authors should be part of the article too. That's what the GFDL
requires, not that the attribution be "a click away".
You've not actually read the GFDL have you?
...
I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add
to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
there is no section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one
stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
Version as stated in the previous sentence.
K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all
the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
and/or dedications given therein.
In any case, the technological nuance of Wikipedia's user interface
isn't really a matter for the licenses.. It is normal on wikis for
attribution to be kept out of the working document. To claim that the
license wouldn't permit it would be equivalent to claiming that every
page or even every chapter in a book had to relist the authors.
The CC attribution (2.0) terms used on the flickr images which have
caused this discussion, which are simmlar...
"If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective
Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and
give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You
are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of
the Original Author if supplied; the title of the Work if supplied; to
the extent reasonably practicable, the Uniform Resource Identifier, if
any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work, unless
such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing
information for the Work;"
"reasonable to the medium or means" Which is exactly what the image
page is intended to be...