On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
This is a sort of meta-licensing issue.
My understanding has always been that images appearing on Commons are supposed to be free in both their country of origin and in the US [1], since WMF is hosted in the US.
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This is also related with IMSLP which currently hosts files on public domain with a note saying "public domain EXCEPT on US", and some of us wonder if we could take advantage of that material (to upload samples or to create midis for articles)