[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies

[Gerard Meijssen]

Andre Engels schreef:
> 2007/2/8, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hoi,
>> When a ND picture qualifies as fair use, the reason why you can maintain
>> the
>> existence is that it is fair use. The fact that it is also available as a
>> ND
>> is irrelevant and would be a reason for deletion.
>>     
>
>
> I know that that's the policy, I'm just trying to show the illogicality of
> the reasoning behind the policy. According to the message I was responding
> to, fair use was okay partly because it does, when used well enough, not
> infringe on the possibilities on reuse. Well, the same holds for ND, but
> that is still disallowed.
>
> And in fact I think it IS illogical to say "this image may be used in
> unmodified form in any way, but nmay not be modified" is not free, when
> "this image in this form may be used in the way we are using it, but we
> don't say anything about other uses" is.
Hoi,
The ND does exclude. Fair use though  a complicated concept does allow 
reuse for all on the same basis. These two have never been the same thing.
Thanks,
   GerardM