Piero wrote:
Waiting for the official resolution, I still do not
understand why an
image under fair use should be used in en.wiki (and probably only in
en.wiki) and an image with permission and non-commercial should not be
used on a project where the fair use is "de facto" illegal.
Assuming that both images with permission and fair use images have to be
limited *only* for uses that request necessarily an image and when no
free images are available.
I do not think that even a strong fair use image may be re-used for
commercial purposes.
Moreover considering that images with permission are checked to assure
that they are used only for allowed case (through OTRS), and fair use
images are not.
As long as you keep trying to conflate fair use and the different
varieties of licence it is inevitable that you will not understand.
"Fair use" is a right that derives from law.
A "licence" is a right granted by one person to an other.
Neither needs to depend on the other. In any given circumstances either
or both may apply without regard to whether the other applies.
WMF may choose to apply a restricted version of either.
Something is "legal" if it is not specifically prohibited. Failure to
mention something in the law does not imply that it is "illegal". There
is a subtle but important difference between the terms "illegal" and
"not legal".
Ec