Hoi, When your policy complies with the Czech law, then I would say that the policy works for you. When your policy does not work for the USA, it means that you do not grant rights for the USA (which seems logical to me anyway) and they can ask the WMF itself.
When your policy does not comply with Czech law, well yes, then you have to change your policy. Thanks, GerardM
On Dec 19, 2007 12:58 PM, Michal Zlatkovsky lahcimit@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, after the Board approved the licensing policy (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy in case anyone forgot :) ), we have written an EDP on Czech Wikipedia that allows us to use things like company logos under certain conditions (okay with US and Czech laws, ie. explicit permission needed; okay with GFDL, ie. can be nonderivative; no free image available; fair use-like rationale) and we've been using it for a while. However, I talked to pfctdayelise about our EDP today and her opinion is that the Foundation's licensing policy was targeted to "legal loopholes" like fair use or fair dealing - and as we don't have any such thing in the Czech Republic (and I'm pretty confident we don't, there have been numerous discussions about that), our EDP is invalid and we can't make any exception policy at all.
I think her interpretation is correct and we at Czech Wikipedia should revoke out EDP, but I'd like to hear more opinions, and as I don't expect any official reply, I'm trying this mailing list. So, what do you think? :)
Thanks, Michal Zlatkovsky, [[m:User:Timichal]]
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