On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Should the upload forms be more clear/explicit and politely in-your-face that once material is released under copyleft/GFDL, you can't technically undo that?
- Joe
I think so. I had a request similar to that a couple days ago. The images were just so-so, and there were some other issues, but the person clearly thought that would be fine to revoke. PD, even.
Maybe the wording could be more clear that you are licensing your images to multiple projects, rather than some action akin to uploading them to flickr. Not sure about the details, but anything that will get people to at least realize that under our licenses revocation isn't really possible, and in some cases even if we want to be nice and remove them from wikimedia servers, removal of the images from other places (say from downstream users) isn't very likely.