[WikiEN-l] Policy on adding (many, relevant) links to articles?

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon May 29 13:01:00 UTC 2006


On 5/29/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day Nick,
>
> > Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
> >
> >>Please *don't* just use the GFDL for photos. Use a Creative Commons
> >>Attribution license instead of, or together with the GFDL.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because the GFDL is bloody awful.  CC-BY-SA gives all the advantages, to
> both content creators and users, without the unnecessary overhead and
> the strange feeling that one ought to be frothing at the mouth and
> bad-mouthing "Micro$oft" that always occurs when one attempts to use the
> GFDL.
>

The GFDL has it's uses if you want to minimise reuse.

-- 
geni



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