On 2 June 2011 13:24, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com wrote:
There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it self-evident to preserve. The bigger problem might be the project scope. I don't know what kind of images your academic partners wishes to upload.
There's also the matter that no particular image can be promised to be safe from local deletion processes.
(except, e.g., WMF logos etc. But even then there's a perennial policy suggestion to move those to a non-free repo not on Commons instead.)
- d.