Dear colleagues,

One of my primary interests on Wikipedia is to increase and improve coverage of matters related to Iceland, my native country. Recently I've become interested in the fauna of this barren land - which consists mostly of birds.

I came upon a webpage by a countryman of mine which has a number of good bird pictures in high resolution. I thought it would be nice to include some of them in Wikipedia since some of the species are currently not illustrated and many only have a low resolution picture.

The web page in question is here:

http://www.simnet.is/jakobs/birds/birds.html

I contacted the photographer and asked him if he was willing to license the pictures under the GFDL or CC-BY so they could be used on Wikipedia. He took the matter under consideration and told me that he felt those licenses were too broad, but he was willing to license the pictures for use on Wikipedia.

I told him that Wikipedia doesn't currently accept exclusive licenses and added a squirt of ideology. As a last resort I asked him if he'd be willing to license his pictures with the following notice:

"© 2005 Jakob Sigurðsson. Anyone can use this image for encyclopedia articles and other educational purposes as long as it is attributed to me."

He agreed.

Is this "free enough" for Wikipedia or will any images I upload with such a notice be deleted?

Regards, Haukur