i dont think the argument here is that people can make money from commons
and the pictures etc, its the fact (as i see it) that a commercial site has
a link from the french wikipedia side bar to their site to make a profit.
what is the difference between this and link spamming and advertising.
i have no objections to people making money, especially if it benefits WMF
but i do have a problem with third parties using wikipedia to place links so
they can make money
regards
mark
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
It has always been permitted to use the Commons work commercially. It has
always been explicitly prohibited to disallow non commercial use.
There are two options: either we only allow OTHERS to make money or we can
make some money as well. I disagree that 800x600 is perfectly fine because,
it may be fine for online content but it is not fine when printed. What is
it that makes you oppose us to make money in order to support our
activities
?
I am surprised that you or MaxSem take this position. I do not quite
understand why you did not realise earlier that allowing commercial use is
what we have always done.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/1/22 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>
Well, after
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Impression this project
has been started (see also discussion on meta forum,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Alleged Commercialisation
of the French Wikipedia) I decided not to upload any images on Commons
with resolution higher than 800x600 any more. (This resolution is
perfectly fine to illustrate the articles but is substandard for any
commercial use). One of the stewards, MaxSem, has left all Wikimedia
projects because of this initiative. Therefore, I do not quite understand
what we are talking about.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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