Did you, sweet Geni, read me well here ? I said I will just let the picture be deleted. I do not understand your aggressivity (though I am used to it). I wish that you would allow a peaceful working environnement though.
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geni wrote:
On 5/14/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Hmmmm. True. Well, I do believe it is a bit stupid though. There is not even a legal problem really.
CC-BY-ND? No but what has that got to do with anything. Our copyright policy is more restrictive than the law and rightly so.
I doubt the copyright holders of that picture (hmm, parents ?) would complain.
We could steal a lot of photo without people complaining. However youtube is that way if that is what you want.
They know their son loved Wikipedia, they were happy that he left a legacy there and the picture is at the same time acceptable but of poor quality.
So contact them and try and get the photo released under a free licence. Or accept that the legacy exists beyond the photo.
If I were just a anthere, I would try to suggest new rules so that every user is allowed ONE non free image of himself on his user page :-)
You've just proposed allowing the addition of 4,390,475 unfree images to wikipedia. No thank you.
It seems to me there should be room for negotiation on such matters.
um unblock-I?
But a new policy proposed by the chair would cause all sorts of problems and messes I am not willing to get in.
Not at all it would be trivial to flat reject it. Short of an outright board resolution it is not going to happen. Of course en.wikipedia is not the only wiki managed by the wikimedia foundation. Projects such as meta appear to have rather different copyright polices.
I'll let him die a little bit a second time.
You can only die once (ignoring some unsubstantiated reports).