GREAT job Danny and Greg :-)
Hmmm... could you ask for a cc licence rather than GFDL in the future ?
I had a good teacher, who explained to me that an image under GFDL...
was errr...
Well, let's say dual licensing is perhaps best :-)
ant
daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
Today we got a nice new image on the English
Wikipedia--see [[Dennis
Johnson]], a star of the NBA, who died recently. The image has a story,
and the story has a moral. I want to tell it.
The creator is an established sports photographer who has worked for the
NBA professional as a photographer. He is also one of the many thousands
of uknown (to us) fans of Wikipedia who visit teh site regularly. When
Johnson died, he went to the article, and noticed there was no picture,
so he decided to donate one that he took. He called the office to ask
how to do it.
After speaking with him briefly, I realized that we have a potential
treasure trove of FREE images here, which he was willing and eager to
share with us, from the NBA and many other areas. I asked Greg Maxwell
to speak with him about licensing, and the rest is history. He selected
an image and released it under the GFDL license. Hopefully, there will
be more to come.
As for the moral of the story: we were missing an image, and someone
decided to release one of his own--a high quality professional image at
that. As for now, I can only wonder at the argument that we keep fairuse
images until we find free ones. The fact that we did not have an image
encouraged someone to "fix the problem" and provide a free one. There
will likely be many more to come.
So, I just want to say thank you to the photographer, who understood the
value in what we are doing, and to Greg Maxwell, for spending time with
him and explaining the free license philosophy. And I also want to thank
all the contributors who did NOT rush to post a fairuse image. Because
of that, a magnificent image is now free.
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