Ray Saintonge, 20/02/2010 03:03:
That's stupid!!!! When these logos were submitted these rules to appease small bureaucratic minds did not exist. Anyone making a submission simply agreed that his submissions were under GFDL.
This is explicit since 2005: http://meta.wikimedia.org/?oldid=125186 And, Meta is not Commons.
Nemo
Another way to look at it: If someone uploads something today in full compliance with today's rules the likelihood remains that new rules will develop in the next five years, and the problems will start all over again then in circumstances where the only person capable of compliance is no longer available. This kind of situation puts all history at risk. Putting history at risk threatens reliability when rules only permit us to express half-truths.