[Foundation-l] Fair use images

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 3/10/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a disservice to our users not to have logos in Commons. People
> often know the logos of companies or products better then they do the
> name. An article like IBM, Shell, Greenpeace should have the company
> logo to illustrate the article.
>
I really don't see how one necessitates the other.  Commons doesn't
have articles, after all.  If you put logos into Commons, then you
make it much harder for anyone who wants to legally distribute dumps
of Commons.

Of course, by that rationale, the WMF logo shouldn't be on Commons
either.  Either that, or it should be released under a free license.

Anthony