[Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

[Philippe Beaudette]

FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box:
"...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the
Creative Commons license."

pb

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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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philippe at wikimedia.org


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>wrote:

> On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds
> <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > The CC family of licences, and Commons re-use guidelines, however, say
> that
> > you need to have attribution using a byline next to the image, in the
> > fashion 'Horation Nelson/CC-BY-SA'.
> >
> > It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable
> as
> > attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts:
> >
> >    - Does anyone have any input on this?
> >    - Has this discussion been had before, if so, where?
> >    - Should Wikipedia, Commons and the various Wikimedia sites use the
> full
> >    byline, or are we OK just using a hyperlink?
> >
> > Your thoughts much appreciated!
>
> Considering mixing my elephant (in corner) and worm (can of) metaphors...
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
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> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>
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