[Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

[Mark (Markie)]

i dont think the argument here is that people can make money from commons
and the pictures etc, its the fact (as i see it) that a commercial site has
a link from the french wikipedia side bar to their site to make a profit.
what is the difference between this and link spamming and advertising.

i have no objections to people making money, especially if it benefits WMF
but i do have a problem with third parties using wikipedia to place links so
they can make money

regards

mark

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hoi,
> It has always been permitted to use the Commons work commercially. It has
> always been explicitly prohibited to disallow non commercial use.
>
> There are two options: either we only allow OTHERS to make money or we can
> make some money as well. I disagree that 800x600 is perfectly fine because,
> it may be fine for online content but it is not fine when printed. What is
> it that makes you oppose us to make money in order to support our
> activities
> ?
>
> I am surprised that you or MaxSem take this position. I do not quite
> understand why you did not realise earlier that allowing commercial use is
> what we have always done.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> 2009/1/22 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>
>
> > Well, after http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Impression this project
> > has been started (see also discussion on meta forum,
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Alleged Commercialisation
> > of the French Wikipedia) I decided not to upload any images on Commons
> > with resolution higher than 800x600 any more. (This resolution is
> > perfectly fine to illustrate the articles but is substandard for any
> > commercial use). One of the stewards, MaxSem, has left all Wikimedia
> > projects because of this initiative. Therefore, I do not quite understand
> > what we are talking about.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Yaroslav
> >
> >
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