On 06/11/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/11/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Because of some rather legalistic interpretations of the policy, the template you applied to the image which has *all appearances of a rationale* and which probably says exactly what you would say for a rationale if you spent a long time thinking about it .... isn't actually considered a rationale.
I sometimes wonder if this is an elaborate trick to put people off using non-free images, simply by making it such a hassle that it's not worth their time...
There's probably a bit of that. The problem is that we have a firehose of nonfree stuff being uploaded under the hitherto-unknown "I wanna!" clause of US fair use law. So cleaning it up is getting a bit harsher. I'm a big fan of fair use when encyclopedically useful (and we could get away with *FAR* more than we do), but the floods of crap and the whinier flooders are really quite, um, annoying.
- d.