2006/11/21, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com:
Now let me try and shift the debate a little here. Let us consider that the ESA, or whatever other organisation, comes up with a licence of their own. Let us imagine they allow free use of their images (in our free sense) *except* for political propaganda. Would that in any way be an acceptable thing to go by? Or is that definitely something we can't accept? It's a real question, I have no real opinion about this.
We are trying to forget (maybe even successfully) that even our free licenses have some exceptions: * things like COAs which are in most countries PD, aren't 100% free - eg. local government can make their own restrictions about their COA on their territory which reduces freedom :) * If I put someones photo on CC-BY-SA (and he has given me right to do it) it doesn't mean that this image can be used eg. for advertising anti conception pills, because this person has still rights to protect his image..
So if ESA has only this problem, I think, that ''special'' license compatible in every other aspect with PD, or CC-BY-SA is acceptable, but if ESA wants as stated some posts earlier any special treatment (educational use only, etc.) it's killing idea of freedom and I don't know how about other wikimedians, but I will leave projects, because I'm not worse than ESA so I want same treatment!
AJF/WarX