Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Durova<nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any suggestions what to do about this? >> >> > > After my recent perusals of reuses of my images, here's my take: > > No one is ever going to pay attention to, let alone understand, let > alone respect, let alone follow the CC-BY or GFDL requirement for > credit. Soon, we will stop asking for it. > > In order for it to happen, we would have to: > a) Make the requirement really really prominent > b) Respect it ourselves > c) Vehemently complain in a very public manner when a few individuals > fail to do so. > > when d) we have far bigger fish to fry. > > I think ultimately most organisations divide media into two > categories: properietary or free. We can certainly label all our > material as proprietary and tell people not to reuse it. Or we can > tell people they can reuse it. But our message of "please reuse it, > but ...." is not going to get through. > > And why do you care anyway? Vanity? Curiosity? Is it that important? > Is a little piece of text on some idiot's webpage the difference > between you contributing your time next time and not? Is the > gratification of your name in cyberspace your primary motivation for > producing useful free images? > > (These questions are rhetorical and deliberately inflammatory. Take > the bait with caution.) > I won't take the bait. I will throw in a larger and tastier bait into the water instead. ;-)
Clearly we cannot take in GFDL only content any more, but to what extent if any, should we prevent people from adding in content previously published under CC-BY-SA? Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l