Kat Walsh wrote:
On 3/8/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
The "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" tag is a problem: of the seven images so tagged, two of them had decidedly non-free "provided that" clauses, forbidding modification and commercial use.
This holds with what I've seen... the majority of the "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" images that I've seen are not free (some are "provided that this image not be used for commercial use"!)
I actually did some poking around in the conditional use image category just last night, and while I didn't keep a rigorous tally I didn't find any that weren't free of onerous conditions. The vast majority of them were simply "free for any use as long as the artist is credited." Perhaps the non-free ones get weeded out over time. But even in the new images that Mark checked only two out of seven were a problem (out of two _thousand_ total) so I don't see this as a major concern.