On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:31 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In your earlier comment, which you have now snipped, you asserted that
Sv.Wp was doing the wrong thing:
"I hope no one thinks Swedish Wikipedians (or anyone else) is free to
reuse the Volvo logo
without a license."
Not quite. I think Sv.Wp is doing the right thing but with the wrong
justification. And I was trying to say I don't think downstream re-users
should infer the appearance of the Volvo logo on Sv.Wp that they have the
right to reuse it as a public-domain image.
It is tagged by Commons as PD. If you don't believe the PD
justification is appropriate, or opens us up to legal disputes, then
we need to spawn a separate discussion about PD-text.
As I see the energy poured into the question of
whether the Wikipedia should
use copyrighted and trademarked logos (which they are already licensed to
use!), I cannot help but agree with the sentiment expressed earlier that the
Swedish Wikipedians have come up with a solution in search of a problem.
The Swedish Wikipedia has drawn a line in the sand that all content in
article space should meet the definition of "free
content".[http://freedomdefined.org/] The reason for using this
criteria is so that there is not a need to consult a different license
for each logo in order to determine what uses are acceptable.
The availability of a WMF license for their logos is useful for some
purposes, however the Wikimedia logos do not meet the criteria of free
content. If Wp.Sv doesn't want to accept non-free licenses in article
space, then it is understandable that the WMF logos need to go as
well.
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John Vandenberg