[Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 10:24:09 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> The Zwijntje picture is actually one that is rather special. I use it as an
> avatar on many of my profiles. When people abuse this picture, it may hurt
> me. There is another aspect as well, I am not arguing about attribution to
> the nth degree of foolishness. It is also very unlikely that I will go to
> court over my IP. This is where I am utterly different from the RIAA because
> it is part of their business model.
>
> So in essence, it is normal to attribute material using the best practices.
> The GFDL was long considered to be a best practice by me. This is no longer
> the case for the type of material that we deal with in Wikipedia and
> Commons. Certainly not following the arguments that I have heard so far from
> the proponents of staying with the GFDL for WMF projects. The irony is that
> it iseven the FSF that agrees that we are better off with the CC-by-sa.

You do know what the "by" in CC-by-sa means, I hope?


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com




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