[WikiEN-l] GFDL Templates

[Zoney]

On 09/07/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>
> Apparently, some people don't like the GNU drawing in the GFDL
> template and so, for esthetic reasons, a new template was born:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-nologo
>
> The reason given, on the edit summary, was:
>
> "some people were annoyed by the cartoon"
>
> Should we have many copyright templates, one to fit everyone's
> taste or just one standard, vanilla-flavored template?
>
>
Should Wikipedia not be including copyright notices as well as the link to
GFDL? Or is my understanding of the licence incomplete.

It's rather annoying that often images etc. are often not tagged with the
author, and their copyright marked as well as their licencing their work
under the GFDL.

File history is not reliable - all the more so with stuff happening like
people uploading the image to Commons, keeping nothing but the GFDL notice,
and deleting the original file history at en (or wherever).

Wikipedia's attitude towards copyright seems lax at best. GFDL is not the
same as public domain, and even for pd - politeness and courtesy dictate
proper attribution.

Zoney

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