On 5/15/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Justttt for the record. I was there at that time, and I participate *heavily* in setting up a proper form.
The image was uploaded on the 14th of may 2004. At that time, the template was in this state: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uploadtext&oldid=447...
It said
Être vigilant sur les <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Copyright">copyrights</a> sans tomber dans la paranoïa. Pour l'utilisation de la doctrine <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/fair use</a>, merci de respecter les indications fournies sur <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Fair use</a> ; Des modèles pour les images sous fair use peuvent être trouvés sur <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Modèle">fair use</a> ;
Which refers to the Wikipedia:copyright of that time.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Copyright&oldid...
Which clearly mentions GFDL.
Yes. But there is no outright statement that by uploading you are releasing under GFDL as far as I can tell (I have not studied french since GCSE and even then was very bad at it).
Incidentally can anyone remember if [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] used to be displayed below the image upload page?
My memory of that time is that there was a crystal clear assumption that any image uploaded was GFDL. I doubly remember it because I worked heavily on all these pages, and I spent a LONG time working on this fair-use issue with Alex Roshuk. If you look at the history of these two links at that time, I was a major author of these pages.
When dealing with copyright en prefers to keep assumptions to a minimum.
Bottom line (not to argue with the fact Norbert image is free, it is not), uploads done at that time on the french wikipedia are under the assumption of GFDL license.
The french wikipedia is free to take this aproach.
At that time, the image was GFDL.
Maybe maybe not
We worked a lot on licenses issues over that summer, and during summer 2004, we started applying tags. This is when Med and many others started tagging "unknown license" to force editors to make a clear statement. The image was taggued unknown in august and this is when Treanna changed the license.
Infancy :-)
Yes en has various similar legacy issues but they are being cleared out.