[WikiEN-l] License problems in en.wikipedia.org?

[geni]

On 11/25/05, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> I just found the following image
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RFJesus.jpg
>
> which seems to be under a different sort of license, if I am not
> mistaken.
>
> I would like to include that image, in the corresponding German
> wikipedia article, however so far people hesitated since they believe
> that this license as expressed in the above url, would/could violate
> the GDL. I find it odd that different wikipedias have different
> standards concerning the license politics.
>

I think the German wikipedia tries to follow german law which doesn't
have much of an equiverlet of fair use.

> What can be done? May the simplest solution would be to contact the
> artist (if he/she can be find) and ask for explicit permission.
>

You almost certianly won't get i.t

> Any comments, suggestions?
>
>
> Uwe Brauer

What do you want to use it for?

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geni