On 28/09/2007, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/27/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
We do not tolerate unfree text to any significant extent. We do tolerate a level of unfree media. Thus we put free media behind other content.
This is simply not true; we have significant (important informational content, useful) quotations from other works sprinkled liberally throughout the Encyclopedia.
And this is a good thing.
And this is entirely and unquestionably (by any reasonable person) legal under fair use.
Close on 50% of the images on en are non free. Text on the other hand? A few percent maybe.
Deleting images before they notice only results in churn and resentment.
I can live with that.
With all due respect, that's an extremely dangerous sentiment for anyone in the community.
Depends on how you handle the resentment.