On 27/09/2007, Tom Holden thomas.holden@gmail.com wrote:

Fantastic idea!

The Wikimedia Foundation would like to be able to use your photographs on Wikipedia and her sister sites, however to do this you must agree to release your photographs under a 'Creative Commons' license. [Insert blurb about CC licenses].

Don't just say CC, or we'll end up with lots of -NC and -ND.

"A free content licence (some CC, or some of these) - suggest CC-by-sa, GFDL or both."

I realise that's way less soundbitey, but the difference is *very* important.

(It seems crazy that they didn't make release under a CC license a criteria for acceptance as a volunteer photographer... One of our goals as a UK organisation really ought to be lobbying people like the Lottery Fund to get them to mandate "free" licenses on work like this they fund.)

Oh yes.

- d.