Michael Snow wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
I would strongly prefer that people not post images to wikipedia
with permission *just* for Wikipedia. We're a GNU-free project, and we will always remain such.
Special:Upload should have a much more obvious statement of this than merely a checkbox for "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it under the terms of the [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|Wikipedia copyright]]." It ought to have a warning similar to what shows up below the box on an editing page, without the stuff specifically oriented to text. Like this:
"All contributions to Wikipedia are released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] for details). If you do not want your contribution to be modified and redistributed at will, then do not submit it. By submitting your work you promise you created it yourself, or copied it from [[public domain]] resources--this does not include most web pages. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!"
Can we get this change made, please?
I think this change should be made together with the change to categorize images, because with that change it'd be impossible to upload fair use images without lying when you click the box. I'd certainly support a change that had:
[] This image is in the public domain [] I am the copyright holder and license this image under the GFDL. [] This image is licensed under the GFDL by ___ [] This image is licensed by ___ under the following more-permissive-than-the-GFDL conditions: ____ (e.g., BSD-style license or something) [] This image is claimed to be fair use, with the following rationale: ___
And then a warning that if your image does not fall under one of these options, you cannot upload it.
-Mark