Erik Moeller wrote:
Jimmy-
O.k., so, it sounds like you're right, we need patches. Does anyone know where the "big fany totally redone form" proposal is, so that someone can code to that spec?
A big totally redone form proposal is part of the Wikimedia Commons idea: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Uploadform1.png http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Uploadform2.png
This proposal seeks to provide a simple and quick solution for photos by Wikipedians while requiring all the necessary information for photos from outside sources.
If the claim is that something is already in the public domain there should be no need to "choose a licence". The "choice" to put something in the public domain is only menaingful for one's own works, or for works over which one has acquired full rights as by purchase or inheritance.
The recent matter of the National Portrait Gallery pictures revolves around whether those images are copyrightable.
Ec