In order to encourage the use of more open licences for the work (photos, sound, etc.) people put on iNaturalist, I was wondering if there could be a ‘reward’ or something that makes selecting more open licences more appealing. And by reward, I only mean something that would make it desirable. For …

trying to gamify license selection seems counterproductive. just educate folks on what their license choices are and the consequences those choices, and let them make an informed decision.

Thanks a lot for the reply! I agree that a lot of this is by talking about it and letting people take an informed decision. I am curious what you mean about counterproductive.

gamification doesn’t promote informed choices. if someone does something for the game but doesn’t realize the consequences of that particular choice, they could get a sort of buyer’s remorse if someone uses their images in a way they didn’t realize they could be used. that could sour them on the who…

Thanks! These are convincing arguments! Cheers, :unicorn:

@paulbeausoleil , if you want to read more about gamification, there are 83 comments in this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-much-do-you-gamify-inaturalist/55549

Something I have been struggling to understand recently is why it is not possible to build queries searching for observations based on the observation license not on the photo license. As far as I have understood in you settings you can choose to license your photos and observations differently. Thi…

[image] charliealice13: it is not possible to build queries searching for observations based on the observation license not on the photo license it is possible. for example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?license=cc-by-nc or https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?licensed=true . t…

[image] pisum: it currently says that license and licensed don’t work, but they actually do based on my testing in the Explore and Identify pages. Thanks, I updated and expanded that section in case anyone wants to check my work: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls#licenses

This has helped me out so much thank you!

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Thanks, I updated and expanded that section in case anyone wants to check my work: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls#licenses

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