Thomas Dalton wrote:
This is a good point. Perhaps I'll change the licensing to {{PD-self}} to avoid a debate about it.
If you don't own the copyright, you can't release it into the public domain. PD is no different from GFDL in that respect.
Here the ownership of the copyright depends on whether the item is copyrightable at all. An argument can be made that if a copyright could exist on the photograph, it would be his. To be sure, one cannot put something in the public domain when it is already there. We are looking for a workable solution, not a complex and meaningless exercise in documentary correctness.
His suggestion is a good one.
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