Dear Wikimedians,
I am happy to announce that in collaboration with the piqs.de
developers, I have added support for piqs.de to Flickr upload bot
<http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload>.
Piqs.de is the first pure Creative Commons image database in Germany
(http://piqs.de/). All works are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License. And they are now easily transferable to Wikimedia
Commons.
Below every picture you find a slide called "Foto-Infos". If you click
on this slide, you get all the information about the author and the
license. Just copy the link you find in the "Foto-Infos" to the Flickr
Upload Bot and upload it to the Commons (the upload process might take
some minutes).
Currently it is still in beta. I hope to add more features to this
(and also the Flickr part), such as multilinguality, cropping &
rotation.
In case you are a regular user of this service, you can request to be
exempted from the upload limit by leaving me a note on my talk, [[User
talk:Bryan]].
Well, happy copying everybody!
Bryan
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From: Yoni Rabkin via RT <licensing(a)fsf.org>
Date: 19-Jul-2007 11:39
Subject: [gnu.org #339201]
To: dgerard(a)gmail.com
Hello,
Please accept our apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We
rely on volunteer effort and often have difficulties keeping up.
I appreciate what you are trying to do, and even though what you wrote
about the GNU licenses is factually correct, I don't think that a
summary of the GNU licenses would be a good thing. Please let me explain
why:
When someone asks me for a summary of one of our licenses, I always
respond that the license itself is the shortest possible text with all
the requirements of the license. If it were possible to make the license
any shorter, while still achieving its goal, the FSF would do that.
In my experience as a GPL Compliance Lab volunteer, such a summary
encourages people not to read the license text itself. Then people will
have an incomplete knowledge of the requirements the license imposes and
the freedoms it grants.
Many questions concern special cases, and obviously not all of them can
be summarised.
Finally, in some cases the questions are actually about copyright law
(e.g. "is X considered distribution in my country?") and have nothing
specific to do with the license. In these cases we often recommend legal
counsel.
What works best for me when answering licensing questions such as these
is to first recommend that the person read the entire license text
carefully, refer to our FAQ* and see if that solves the their
problems. Then ask us questions about what they read as needed to
resolve any misunderstandings. Another benefit of this that we get
feedback about the license itself, and not an ancillary document.
* http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html
--
I am not a lawyer, the above is not legal advice
Regards, Yoni Rabkin
Due to popular demand (well, one, but who's counting;-) I extended my
HotCat JavaScript tool so it can add categories on the upload page. As
on "normal" pages, it enables you to see if a category exists, and
makes suggestions for other (more specialized) ones.
Try it:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?withJS=MediaWiki:HotCat.js
The categories will be added when you click the upload button; until
then, you can still modify/remove categories.
Cheers,
Magnus
I'm working on the page at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuse
- which is how to reuse content from Wikimedia sites, including text and images.
We want the *simplest possible* page on how to easily reuse material
and comply with licence obligations. My audience is the people who
phone me doing clearances, when I explain to them they don't need
case-by-case clearance if they follow the licence terms. (I'm a UK
press contact for Wikimedia.)
The simplest possible wording is absolutely necessary - the very
concept of free content, where you don't need to ask first, explodes
their heads. (Though they like the idea when they do get it. Usually
after five to fifteen minutes' repetition.)
1. Could you please check what is written there about the GFDL, the
GPL and the LGPL? (There are some images on Commons that are GPL/LGPL,
e.g. screen shots and icons from programs.)
2. "When using a GFDL photo as part of a larger work, the larger work
must be GFDLed. (someone please fill in this bit with precisely how
this works both per the FSF and in actual case law - whole book?
chapter? section?)" - the question here is how much counts to make the
larger work a derivative of the GFDL image, and how much of the work
is a derivative and how much is an aggregation. I realise this is
vexed enough in the case of GPL software ... Do you have any simple
guidance to give people interested in reusing GFDL images? (I've seen
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-05-08-fdl-scope .) Has there
been any case law at all on the GFDL?
Any guidance you can provide would be most welcomed!
- thanks, David.
(cc'd to Wikimedia Commons mailing list)
Hi
I asked a photographer for permission to use pictures on Commons. I
filled out the email permission template with the CC-by 3.0 license
after having read this:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
"A new version of this license is available. You should use it for new
works, and you may want to relicense existing works under it"
After recieving the license I see that CC by 3.0 is not allowed on
Commons. Can anyone explain this?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-3.0
I feel now very stupid to ask the photographer again for another
permission in 2.5.
I strongly suggest either to accept CC by 3.0 or to ask to remove this
misleading text we link to in hundred thousands of images.
Help appreciated.
Regards
Robin
Hi!
I think will be useful for Commons promotions to created application
which will display latest uploads on Commons (similar to My Flickr).
With best regards,
Eugene.
PS
Sorry, I don't know how hard to implement it.
Greetings,
I am under the impression that there are plenty of photographs taken
by elderly people which are presently sleeping in drawers.
I came to realise the matter while searching for photographs of ships
of the 1930s and 1960s, and noticed that a significant number of
website do feature such images, credited to individuals (typically
sailors from these ships).
These images are usually
* of fairly good quality
* represent things of which we cannot make photographs ourselves
The people who made the photographs are usually
* difficult to reach
* not educated in Free software
* probably by default relatively well-disposed towards us :
** they like to share their knowledge of the subject
** they do not expect to become rich from these photos
(these two points of infered from the publication of the images on websites).
I would like to ask
1) Whether anyone has experience in talking family members or friends into
publishing such images
2) Whether someone has experience in contacting unknown people, in the
perspective of crafting an example message which would be concise,
clear and reasonably extensive on the matter of Free licences.
Can someone invent a Image: namespace link or two for purging image thumbnails?
1: thumb.php?f=filename.jpg&w=800 - the tricky bit here I suppose is
to convert "Image:Weißenbrunn im Landkreis Kronach.png" to
"Wei%C3%9Fenbrunn_im_Landkreis_Kronach.png" (ok, not _that_ tricky)
2. regular old &action=purge
it would be cool if these links only appeared if the file was over a
certain size and/or a PNG/SVG, but not sure if Javascript can be that
smart or not :)
cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise