2008/6/16 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Assuming that freely-licensed images should always be uploaded to Commons anyway, which isn't a terrible assumption, this restriction only reduces people's ability to upload fair-use images (and, of course, copyvios).
The ability to upload copyvios isn't reduced.
Of course technical restrictions don't stop bad faith, but it does reduce the likelihood of inadvertent ones (and claims of "fair use" under the hitherto-unknown "I wanna" clause).
- d.