On 30-10-2002, Daniel Mayer wrote thusly :
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 10:35 am, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
Sounds good. I'm leaving South Korea, but I have an ameteur photographer friend staying behind, and she just bought a scanner. She's agreed to release many of her pictures under the GFDL.
Correct me if am I wrong somebody but I do believe that an image copyright holder has the right to keep a restrictive copyright on a full resolution image AND also spin off lower resolution versions under other less restrictive licenses. So for example I could take a digital photo at 1600 x 1200 pixels which is automatically under a restrictive license and then create a downsized, cropped, and web-friendly version at 250 x 200 and release the smaller version under the GFDL or even into the public domain.
So is Wikipedia only destinied to be in the web medium ? Eventually "The Great Wikipedia Encyclopedia in xxx volumes" might appear in print someday. Then we will need hi-res photos.
If this is in fact true then we should tell Wikipedia photographers that they can keep a restrictive license on their high resolution originals if they want.
Regards, Kpjas.