The process is confusing, the red tape frustrating.

John Baer baerjj at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 22:11:42 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:00 -0400, fedora-art-list-request at redhat.com
wrote:

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> John Baer wrote:
> 
> > I find it frustrating working in an environment shadowed by legal
> fine
> > print and constant legal warnings (ie. By hitting Save Changes you
> put
> > your changes under the WikiLicense. If you don't want that, hit
> Cancel
> > to cancel your changes). I have not run across this disclosure on
> any
> > other wiki.
> 
> It is present in many wikis including wikipedia and they have similar 
> rules on using material under various copyright licenses. Go ahead
> and 
> look for yourself. You might find it frustrating but even if you
> ignore 
> the legal sceneario (which you really can't) attribution is
> considered 
> basic courtesy.
> 
> Rahul 

Rahul,

I agree completely!

A topic as important as this may need a wiki page explaining what is
desired and examples of how to meet the desired result. I believe most
of us want to do the right thing but some need a little additional help.

Thank you for your comments,

John




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