[Commons-l] SXC.hu images

[Bryan Tong Minh]

The list of images that still need permission, sorted by usage:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bryan/sxc-list

On 6/25/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I purposely formulated it this way. We do get enough of the following
> permissions:
> Q: "Hello, I want to use your images on Wikipedia. Do you want to
> license them under the GNU Free Documentation License?"
> A: "Sure, I'm glad to publish them on Wikipedia"
>
> Not simply asking them to freely license their images has advantages:
> * The person is made aware of the free content movement.
> * The person has the choice what license they want.
> * We are sure that people actually read the email, and know that a
> free license also means "commercial use" and "derivative work".
>
> Of course, then people generally don't know which license to choose,
> but from their response it is often recognizable whether they only
> want attribution, or also copyleft. Then I reply by adding a big thank
> you message, and the prefilled form from [[Commons:Email templates]]
> and ask them to send that to permissions-commons at wikimedia.org.
>
> It may be more work, more annoying, but it is much more fair to give
> people the opportunity to choose, and it is absolutely fair to have
> them known that they are releasing their images can be use
> commercially.
>
> Bryan
>
> On 6/25/07, Florian Straub <Flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Bryan wrote:
> >
> > > Oh and in total I have already obtained a free license for 40 images.
> >
> > I saved two, but I only tried two so far, so I guess it's ok :)
> >
> > Can you maybe modifiy your template a bit? If people were enabled to simply say "Yes, I agree" one could simply forward their mail to permissions at wikimedia.org without further emails ...
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Flo
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