Well, although technically possible to print, I do not exclude the possibility that the jury might favor a GFDL-only licensed picture less than a CC BY-SA picture. It definitely makes the image less useful.
Anyway - we're bikeshedding.
Lodewijk
2012/9/3 Platonides platonides@gmail.com
On 02/09/12 20:53, Michael Andersen wrote:
Hi
The idea was to have a contest where users upload pictures of monuments
with
a free license.
But some free licenses are better than others. What would happen if one
of
the winners was a GFDL? Would it not mean that we would have to add the whole GFDL text to the calendar and wherever we would like to use the photos?
(...)
So I think we should make as few exceptions as possible. I think licenses that are more free than Cc-by-sa-3.0 is ok (Cc-Zero and PD-self) but I
would
not like GFDL for example.
Cheers Michael / MGA73
Not really a problem for a calendar. You have the back side available for that. And it's not like saying "CC-BY-SA or compatible" would be a good move. There are other perfectly good licenses like the Free Art License which are "equivalent", and we should not be banning.
We are also giving a strong signal for free licenses, even those we may like less by not discriminating them on the contest.
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