[Foundation-l] Commons content reuse how-to?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

David Gerard wrote:
> I have an email addres, wp at davidgerard.co.uk, set up for en:wp press
> queries. Of course, it gets used as a sort of OTRS replacement.
> 
> One query I've gotten a bit lately is "may we reuse this text?" or
> "may we reuse this image?" I email back explaining how the original
> contributor owns it and there will be a license attached, which may be
> easy or hard to keep to the terms of.
> 
> There is [[Commons:Licensing]], which seems mainly to be for
> contributors. But is there a page on Commons that is a simple guide to
> people wanting to reuse content? If not, should there be? Is there a
> page anywhere else that serves this purpose?
> 

Well, there's the OTRS templates:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/en#Permission_for_image
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/en#Permission_for_text

(No, they're not live)

> (Let's assume for the moment I have little interest in diving
> headfirst into Commons politics.)
> 

Politics is silly.

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