On 22/12/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/12/2007, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
This spun off from a different discussion elsewhere, but I was wondering about the possibility of printing Christmas cards based on images from Commons. Maybe a partnership with a printing company could be made for next year's fundraiser? (I'd buy them!)
Depends. Do you think there is a market of christmas cards with 3 pages of licensing text attached?
By then, we'll have the Magic New GFDL ;-)
Seriously, I'm not sure that's an issue. We just have to be selective.
Let's sample quickly the first dozen FPs displayed, missing out the "astronomy" and "historical" ones so as not to skew it:
CC-BY-SA x2, CC-BY/GFDL x2, GFDL x3, CC-BY-SA/GFDL x4, PD.
That's three - one quarter - which are *only* available under GFDL; the rest are all available for use under some form of "light" license suitable for a card.
(There are statistics kicking around somewhere for our media as a whole - I would be surprised if less than half was licensed under something less cumbersome than the GFDL)