[Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

[Eugene Zelenko]

Hi!

I agree that Meta is good place for WMF-owned logos. At least many
purist talks on Commons will be finaly resolved.

Eugene.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Andrew Turvey
> <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I've started a discussion at
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Wikimedia_Chapter_Copyrights
>> regarding the policy of Commons on images where the copyright is owned by a
>> recognised chapter.
>>
>> Commons already recognises an exception for images whose copyrights are
>> owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. This proposal would widen that to cover
>> images whose copyrights are owned by recognised Wikimedia chapters.
>
> For some time Mediawiki has had the technical capacity to use more
> than one shared media repository simultaneously.
>
> My personal opinion is that non-free materials owned by the Foundation
> (or chapters, or other authorized uses, etc) should really be shunted
> to a separate repository with Commons reserved for truly free works.
>
> This could be accomplished either by setting up a new wiki
> specifically for that purpose or by converting an existing wiki, such
> as Meta, to also serve as a shared repository.  The latter is my
> preference.  Move all the unfree content to Meta and configure the
> shared repository settings to also pull from Meta so that the various
> logos and what not would still be accessible to all the projects
> exactly as they are now.
>
> I think the advantage of clearly separating free and unfree content
> outweighs the disadvantage of having to maintain two repositories.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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