On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:07:47PM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Daniel Hulme wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
- in the upload form, you use checkboxes for license, it should be radio
buttons, for example why would I choose both PD and another license?
No, checkboxes are correct. You wouldn't want both PD and another license, but dual-licensing in the general case is quite common. For
I know about dual licensing and understand its use in certain cases, I just don't think it is the case in this particular gallery, where the choices are: proprietary, PD and various CC licenses.
Well, that clearly is a misfeature, though I would say the error is not "the checkboxes should be radio buttons;" rather, "there should be more options".
My understanding is that Wikimedia Commons allows CC or some other licenses whitout a need for dual-licensing http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses
Maybe so; historically it has not been the case. Or maybe it's only images on WC destined as Wikipedia article illustrations that have to be FDL? Either way, it is only an example; remembering the last time I uploaded an illustration for Wikipedia it was the first thing that came to mind.
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Sure, at openclipart.org, where we encourage people to remix and the uploads are in source format (SVG), a free license make sense. At inkscapegallery.net, where all you do is to show some final results, I am not so sure.
I think that if you have created some artwork for another purpose and then also send it in to inkscapegallery (or anywhere else, for that matter), it is reasonable to expect to be able to fill in the license correctly, even if the work is multi-licensed. Sure, if you link to the original use of the artwork people will be able to spot the license choice, but if I'm browsing for work with a particular license (say, because I need it to be DFSG-free), then I don't want to miss works that meet my requirements because they are marked as only CC on inkscapegallery when they are in fact CC/GPL.
You make good points to illustrate why users might not want to dual-license their work, or might not want to give that information on inkscapegallery, but you haven't given any reason for *preventing* users from doing so, which replacing checkboxes with radio buttons would do.