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?
I think that it would be a shame.
And why only September? Why not include August?
Because it is a contest and we have to have some rules. If we allow each country to do as they like it is hard to run the contest.
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
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: wikilovesmonuments-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikilovesmonuments-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] På vegne af Tomasz W. Kozlowski Sendt: 2. september 2012 00:50 Til: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition Emne: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Acceptable licences (UploadCampaigns options)
Hi Platonides, thank you for your comment; indeed I haven't been clear enough. Your wording is much more closer to the spirit that was behind the decision, so I'll repeat it again:
* We /do/ accept content released under another free licences acceptable on Commons, and will not be "disqualifing" or in any other way removing from the contest any pictures that were released under another licence (and possibly uploaded through another tools), but * For the sake of simplicity & to make things easier for newcomers, we are only offering CC-BY-SA as the deafult licence for the UploadCampaigns.
And as for the other CC licences, we (myself and Basvb) have disabled them when starting the campaigns, but looks like people mistakenly turned them on again.
Again, Platonides, thanks for the corrections; it's appreciated!
Tomasz
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