[WikiEN-l] Licensing for community images

[Justin Cormack]

On 22 Nov 2005, at 16:27, John Lee 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.

There is a point in mirrors having userspace. user talk includes  
documentation of the process of building
the encyclopaedia outside article talk, and User is just like the  
biographical info about contributors
that you get with a traditional encyclopaedia.

If people dont want their pictures free, they dont have o add them.  
They can always link to an external site.

Justinc