On 9/25/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Particularly as images of living people are almost
always RIDICULOUSLY
replaceable. Apart from extreme cases like J.D. Salinger, there's
pretty much no excuse for a non-free image on a living bio.
In fact.. in this thread we've seen images so replaceable that we
already had free images on commons.... But that didn't stop people
from arguing that we were sacrificing the encyclopedia on the alter of
freedom.
What do we have such an obsession with immediacy in the case of images? ...
Other than a in few cases involving special users I don't recall any
history of complaints that we were destroying the encyclopedia because
we preferred the slow path of writing new freely licensed articles
rather than just illicitly copying whatever we could get away with.