Gerard Meijssen schrieb:
Hoi, In the way you put it, there is no discussion possible. I do accept your position, I do not agree with it.
What you write is more an article of faith then an argument why this is what we do. Mathias, you can do better. Thanks, GerardM
The reason we only allow *known* free material is simple: we promise that you can use anything you find on commons freely. If we had images under "no known copyright", that would no longer be true. And if someone still believed that they can use our material freely, they may be in for a nasty surprise. And would likely try to paqss the hot potato back to us.
Basically, we would undermine our reputation as a repository of free media. We would become just some reporistory of some media. Like Flickr.
-- daniel