[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image license tags

[Mark Wagner]

On 3/8/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> Kat Walsh wrote:
> > On 3/8/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>The "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" tag is a problem: of the seven images
> >>so tagged, two of them had decidedly non-free "provided that" clauses,
> >>forbidding modification and commercial use.
> >
> > This holds with what I've seen... the majority of the
> > "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" images that I've seen are not free
> > (some are "provided that this image not be used for commercial use"!)
> > -- enough so that I wonder if it wouldn't be better to get rid of the
> > template altogether and ask the copyright holders of the other images
> > to license under CC-BY.
>
> Perhaps we should add a "CopyrightedFreeUseWithAttribution" tag to cover
> the most common legitimate case, and then go through the rest with a
> fine comb?  Not sure what such a tag would gain over CC-BY, though,
> except that some people may simple be categorically opposed to CC.

{{Attribution}} already exists.  It's marked as deprecated in favor of
{{cc-by}}, though.

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Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]