Dori wrote:
Jimbo I think it's a terrible idea to delete images w/o explicit license information because the default assumed license is the GFDL. The uploader may not know that the image needs to be tagged, and we're going to lose many images this way.
It is far preferable to drop material of unknown status than to keep it. It can always be resubmitted if it's genuine.
We don't require text to have an explicit license, why should we do this for images?
As a practical matter, people seem to much more commonly toss away their brains about images; we get a lot more "I grabbed this off some web site, so it must be free" with images than with text.
There's some cut-and-paste with text too, but it seems to be rarer (and also much easier to tell due to formatting). For some reason people have the idea that they shouldn't _have to_ create original images like they should with text, or that somehow it's more acceptable to use copyrighted images without permission than it is to cut and paste someone's text without attribution or permission.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)