On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:19 +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
Hello
I just found the following image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RFJesus.jpg
which seems to be under a different sort of license, if I am not mistaken.
I would like to include that image, in the corresponding German wikipedia article, however so far people hesitated since they believe that this license as expressed in the above url, would/could violate the GDL. I find it odd that different wikipedias have different standards concerning the license politics.
What can be done? May the simplest solution would be to contact the artist (if he/she can be find) and ask for explicit permission.
Any comments, suggestions?
This is typical of en-w's "flexible" approach to licensing.
Someone is pretending that because it was printed in some newspapers under terms that we know nothing about somehow this gives us permission to use it under some unknown terms even though we dont accept pictures where we are explicitly given permission any more.
Currently its not worth trying to get rid of these pictures from en as there are still thousands of more dubious ones (no source for example). It might get picked up at some point in the fair use examination.
You cant use it in de: only real free images, sensible policy.
Justinc