On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that it is annoying to think of commons admins going to all this trouble just for the benefit of unknown people selling t-shirts, but if people *aren't* allowed to sell t-shirts then it's not free-culture project.
It's not a free culture project. It's a free "educational content" (1) project.
Really, to give the context, you need to quote it in full:
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity."
I agree that the "educational content" and "free license or in the public domain" aspects do often conflict, but both aspects need to be borne in mind when debating such cases.
Carcharoth