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.
Stephen
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.
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.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)