Thomas Dalton wrote:
This is a good point. Perhaps I'll change the licensing to {{PD-self}} to avoid a debate about it.
If you don't own the copyright, you can't release it into the public domain. PD is no different from GFDL in that respect.
The image is my photograph of a wood rendering of the legally-defined seal. The law itself is in the public domain, so unless the wood rendering can be considered to be some kind of derivative work, the rendering and thus the photograph are in the public domain.