On 02/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
I think the
intended meaning was along the lines of "Current lack of a
free image is not sufficient justification to use a non-free image".
That would make more sense, and is a position with which I think we could
all agree.
It is the general consensus view, but I'm a little worried we may be
failing to communicate quite what it means very well - it's the
position you seem to have been arguing against all day!
See, an hour before, you said: "If we have no free-use image, we
should be and are free to use a fair-use image *until* such time as we
do have a free-use image."
So you insist that we can use non-free images when we don't currently
have a free one, but then you agree that not having a free image just
now *isn't* justification to use an non-free one. [1]
I may just be a little slow - I probably am, it's a Sunday evening -
but it seems that these two positions are pretty much diametrically
opposed to each other...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
[1] for those following at home, the posts are
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2008-March/091251.html
and
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2008-March/091214.html