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