That's the whole point of free licenses—you're giving up some of your rights to your work. This doesn't have anything to do with European vs. American copyright law.
I checked the wording in the existing terms of service and it's exactly the same. Ryan Kaldari On 12/12/11 12:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ryan Kaldari<rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Would you care to explain anything you're talking about? >> >> I don't see anything in the Licensing section that mentions anything >> about U.S. copyright law. It says the content is licensed under the GFDL >> and CC-BY-SA, and the Attribution section just reflects the standard >> practices for those licenses. I don't see anything about how we're >> supposed to belittle and disgrace Europeans, but maybe I missed that part :) > I think what he means is that under most European copyright regimes, > an author has far-reaching personality rights, which include the right > to have the work accredited to them whenever it is republished. The > terms of use, in his feeling, hollow out this right by redefining the > obligatory credit part of the GFL and CC-BY-SA in such a way that one > can mention all authors by doing something that does not include > mentioning any of them. > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
