[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image license tags

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Mar 9 18:09:20 UTC 2006


On 08/03/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:

> Perhaps we should add a "CopyrightedFreeUseWithAttribution" tag to cover
> the most common legitimate case, and then go through the rest with a
> fine comb?  Not sure what such a tag would gain over CC-BY, though,
> except that some people may simple be categorically opposed to CC.

You'd need both, regardless. Whilst it may have a functional
equivalence to a CC-BY license, it'd be very, very legally dubious to
claim that this meant it got released under the CC-BY license!

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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