[Foundation-l] Non-commercial images

[effe iets anders]

The idea is that Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL license. And that
license states that you may only use texts with that license in environments
witht the same, a similar or more free license. GFDL allows the commercial
use of images, so NC-images are actually incompatible with GFDL, and so with
Wikipedia. They conflict with the content. IANAL, but I am told that this is
a potential danger to the status of our content.

Lodewijk

2006/12/19, luke brandt <shojokid at gmail.com>:
>
> Sam Korn wrote:
>
> > On 12/15/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >> On issues such as whether we should allow NC images I, as member of
> >> the current Board, definitely don't think there should be any project
> >> level autonomy at all. If we want to keep our content compatible
> >> across languages and projects, we need to apply a consistent standard
> >> of freedom.
> >
> > Is that really necessary?  Yes, a defined *minimum* level of freedom
> > is necessary for cross-project compatibility, but that doesn't have to
> > preclude allowing projects from being *more* strict than the
> > Foundation-defined minimum.
> >
>
> Hi - I'd be interested to know the thinking behind the exclusion of
> non-commercial images please. Anyone care to explain?
>
> --
> luke
>
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