[Commons-l] a new free image!

[Anthere]

GREAT job Danny and Greg :-)

Hmmm... could you ask for a cc licence rather than GFDL in the future ? 
I had a good teacher, who explained to me that an image under GFDL... 
was errr...

Well, let's say dual licensing is perhaps best :-)

ant


daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
> Today we got a nice new image on the English Wikipedia--see [[Dennis 
> Johnson]], a star of the NBA, who died recently. The image has a story, 
> and the story has a moral. I want to tell it.
>  
> The creator is an established sports photographer who has worked for the 
> NBA professional as a photographer. He is also one of the many thousands 
> of uknown (to us) fans of Wikipedia who visit teh site regularly. When 
> Johnson died, he went to the article, and noticed there was no picture, 
> so he decided to donate one that he took. He called the office to ask 
> how to do it.
>  
> After speaking with him briefly, I realized that we have a potential 
> treasure trove of FREE images here, which he was willing and eager to 
> share with us, from the NBA and many other areas. I asked Greg Maxwell 
> to speak with him about licensing, and the rest is history. He selected 
> an image and released it under the GFDL license. Hopefully, there will 
> be more to come.
>  
> As for the moral of the story: we were missing an image, and someone 
> decided to release one of his own--a high quality professional image at 
> that. As for now, I can only wonder at the argument that we keep fairuse 
> images until we find free ones. The fact that we did not have an image 
> encouraged someone to "fix the problem" and provide a free one. There 
> will likely be many more to come.
>  
> So, I just want to say thank you to the photographer, who understood the 
> value in what we are doing, and to Greg Maxwell, for spending time with 
> him and explaining the free license philosophy. And I also want to thank 
> all the contributors who did NOT rush to post a fairuse image. Because 
> of that, a magnificent image is now free.
> 
> 
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