[WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 11:55:18 UTC 2009


2009/6/6 Angela <beesley at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Sam Korn<smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (Photo: <a
>> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament.jpg">Wikipedia</a>)
>>
>> I imagine that would satisfy *almost* everyone.
>
> Adding the license wouldn't be much harder:
>
>  (Photo: <a
>> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament.jpg">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL</a>)
>
> Angela

Not really. You are still entirely reliant on wikipedia servers
staying up and the image staying in that place which is why you should
host the credit and probably the GFDL locally.

-- 
geni



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