This is a sorta-technical sorta-copyright issue. InstantCommons is great stuff, it spreads free content with correct attribution in a marvellous manner.
But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same.
Is there any relatively simple way to stop this happening? (Including not caring.)
- d.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same.
Is there any relatively simple way to stop this happening? (Including not caring.)
Either not caring, or moving the Wikimedia logos to meta and configuring meta as a second foreign file repo to the Wikimedia projects. I think both options have been proposed before.
Bryan
On 26 July 2010 11:48, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same. Is there any relatively simple way to stop this happening? (Including not caring.)
Either not caring, or moving the Wikimedia logos to meta and configuring meta as a second foreign file repo to the Wikimedia projects. I think both options have been proposed before.
The second sounds like way too much faff (and has been consistently rejected on "don't be silly" grounds). I suppose some categories could be determined to indicate "don't InstantCommons." Not caring is probably the best option unless it become some sort of active problem.
- d.
Hi,
I don't think moving it to meta is a good solution, don't think its a solution at all.
When the files are on meta people can always use the meta api to get the logo's, we just move it arround.
I don't really think we should care about it, when people use our logo the license will be there to, so no big deal right? Otherwhise we should blacklist the category with the logo's or something like that
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Huib Laurens sterkebak@gmail.com wrote:
When the files are on meta people can always use the meta api to get the logo's, we just move it arround.
Yes, but people who use InstantCommons on Commons are then guaranteed to get free images, which is what most would expect. If they do want the unfree Wikimedia logos, they can use meta as well if they desire so.
Bryan