On 02/04/2008, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2008_Ma...
I've put in keep opinions for all the ones listed there.
What this is is a recurrence of an issue that comes around every so often; whether non-copyright restrictions are important as regards freedom for images. The NASA case (and other US government insignia) can be regarded as a special case of trademark protection in most ways. Wikipedia's track record is that the depiction of trademarked items does not render an image unfree for our purposes, and this should follow the same logic.
I had a screenshot of wikipedia I made and uploaded for debugging purposes deleted as unfree...
That being said, when NASA logos are unnecessary in an image and it doesn't hurt the image to crop them out, I'd vote for removing them.
Seems reasonable to me. Maybe I should have anonymised Wikipedia by blocking out the copyright part of the interface and declared the rest as PD/GPL. The generic visual representation of a user interface produced entirely by GPL software should not be under any copyright restrictions ;-)
Peter