On 11/11/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Personally (and I hope I'm not sounding snide here, I'm honestly not trying to be) I feel that a license that requires attribution is not really a free license, in the same way that fair-use and use-by-permission are not free licenses.
That's a reasonable point of view. If most people agree, then we should not use those images. We can't have it both ways: use free images that require attribution, then not really attribute them properly.
Certainly, we should attribute images where it's convenient to do
so (e.g., at the very least, on the image page). But if we feel compelled to bend over backwards to do something more, or worse, if we permit attribution-required licensors to compel us to bend over backwards, it seems to me we're denying ourselves precisely the same freedom we attempt to ensure ourselves by disallowing fair use and used-with-permission.
Yep. IMHO a "credit: Mr Foo" in the caption is not bending over backwards.
Other peole have indicated that that's too much, and they'd prefer an aggregated list of credits at the bottom of the page. That's reasonable too.
Steve