On 14/05/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/14/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Hmmmm. True. Well, I do believe it is a bit stupid though. There is not even a legal problem really.
CC-BY-ND? No but what has that got to do with anything. Our copyright policy is more restrictive than the law and rightly so.
Indeed ... it falls outside the Wikimedia copyright policy that Florence, as chair, ratified.
They know their son loved Wikipedia, they were happy that he left a legacy there and the picture is at the same time acceptable but of poor quality.
So contact them and try and get the photo released under a free licence. Or accept that the legacy exists beyond the photo.
Contacting them to relicence the photo would be the most productive angle.
I'll let him die a little bit a second time.
Or you could contact them to relicence the photo, rather than working against the Foundation-wide copyright policy that you as chair accepted. Then we all win.
- d.