[WikiEN-l] Licensing for community images

[geni]

On 11/22/05, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
> Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>
> >I have created a proposal which would allow the use of non-free images
> >in special cases outside the encyclopedia.
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_for_community_images
> >
> >Please CC any replies to me, I am not on this mailing list
> >
> >Regards
> >en:User:Thue
> >
> I would support this unless some sort of justification for "free images
> only at all times" policy is provided. The existing photo of me on my
> userpage is released under a free licence, and I have no intention of
> changing that barring extenuating circumstances. I would just like for
> other users to have the freedom to use an unfree-image as long as it is
> not used in the encyclopedia itself. There is no point for mirrors to
> keep our userpages anyhow, and many users when relicencing their
> contributions under another licence add a notice to the effect of "I
> relicence all my contributions except my userpage under the following
> licence". I believe the right exists for non-free content (as long as
> it's not a copyvio) to be used on userpages.
>
> John Lee
> ([[User:Johnleemk]])

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