[WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

[Sam Korn]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Hell no. You didn't even credit the author.
>
> Photo: WikiWitch at Wikipedia, under GFDL.
>
> That's about the minimum you could get away with. You could probably
> ditch the "Wikipedia" actually, maybe link to their Wikipedia user
> page though.
>
> (In this case, the photo is actually PD, so it's all moot).

Right.  I certainly agree that it would be better to name the author.

But when articles are reused, they generally link to the Wikipedia article without giving a list of usernames; I don't see why that would be different for images.

Sam

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