The point made by Justinc has merit. Allowing mirrors to redistribute user
pages and user talk pages serves as biographical info and documents the
process of building the encyclopedia.
My first thought was to change the proposal to allow reuse of the images
with the condition that the pages they are used in are substantially
unchanged (there is no legitimate reason to distribute a substantially
changed version of my user page). However, this modified proposal would
still cause problems with the use of images on talk pages, and there are
legitimate reasons for the distribution of substantially changed versions of
talk pages (like continuing the debate in a fork of Wikipedia).
So after some though, I have decided to not modify the proposal, but let it
stand as it is. The use of non-redistributable community images is intended
to be limited, and the impact of a mirror not having the image of me on
their copy of my user page is small.
Regards
-Thue
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