On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> On 20 July 2015 at 18:09, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > it is also hard for me to get behind the > > notion of punishing someone for demanding that reusers due the things > that > > Commons actually recommends that they do. > > It's not a question of punishment, but of protecting Commons' > reputation (from being" brought into disrepute", as it might be > termed) > There are two ways of looking at it though. In one narrative you block Harald and delete his images to protect reusers, but in another narrative you are telling content creators that the few rights they are nominally granted by the required license (e.g. attribution) are worthless because if they try to enforce those rights we'll kick them out. Ultimately though, I wonder if this mailing list is rather a poor venue for this discussion. Isn't it more an issue for Commons? -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
