David Benbennick wrote:
On 9/14/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
considered an exception? -- but it seems clear to me, anyway, that it is not "free" in the sense required to be listed on Wikipedia Commons. In the United States its usage is restricted fairly heavily, including the "non-commercial" bugaboo. It looks to me like, in effect, this would be a "copyrighted with permission but no commercial use" tag. Which, as I understand it, is verboten.
This is something to discuss on the Commons, or on commons-l. I don't see that a discussion of the Commons' policies can possibly be relevent on wikien-l.
It's being discussed on commons-l and commons itself: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Trademarks
Personally, I'd shoot at first suspicion that something was not really in the public domain
Perhaps that's why you aren't given a gun.
I thought all admins got a mop, a bucket, and an M16!