User talk:Ielsner

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Hi, who is this?

I notice you slapped a GFDL license on Image:Rickards High School.jpg, even though it has two copyright notices in the actual image. Do you actually have permission to distribute that image under the GFDL, or is that a lie? We don't take kindly to copyright violators around these parts. —Keenan Pepper 21:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I am a student at Rickards. Yes, this image is from Google Earth, but I thought that GFDL was different from the GPL... I don't have any permission at all. Which license should I use? Is the image even apropriate for the page? -User:Ielsner Ian Elsner

The GNU Free Documentation License is different from the GNU General Public License, but they are both copyright licenses which you can only apply to your own works, not those of others. If you don't own the copyright, then you have no control over the license. I'll have to put the image up for deletion because we don't have permission to use it.

Seems like an honest mistake, but please be more careful. And if you can find an image we can use (such as a photo you took yourself), that would be great. —Keenan Pepper 22:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)