2007/8/3, Uber Halogen uberhalogen@googlemail.com:
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get prosecuted.
Well, if you print one of those: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bills_of_the_United_States
you get in trouble too :)
As I remember, main reason for Polish money was that National Bank of Poland states, they are copyrighted: http://www.nbp.pl/home.aspx?f=disclaimer_banknoty.htm
According to analysis in Rzeczpospolita, NBP is wrong.
"Unfree restrictions" on money are IMHO similar to restrictions of personal identity, trademark, etc. If copyright restriction is invalid in this case, we could handle non-copyright restrictions by putting warning template.