[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies (some important points)

[geni]

On 2/8/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/02/07, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > be accepted any more. When Jimbo recently wrote that we should get rid
> > of  non-free material, many a voice was saying: "Hey, why shouldn't we
> > used stuff we worked hard to get permission when en.wiki uses
> > {{fairuse}} for the same purpose?"
>
>
> Note that en:wp used to have a LOT of with-permission images, which
> many contributors worked very hard to get permission for (e.g.
> User:Secretlondon ... who is now carrying her camera everywhere to
> generate free images). I believe these are almost all now gone. That
> is: en:wp went through this already.
>
>
> - d.
>

a bit over 600 left although the exact number depends on how full CAT:CSD is.

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geni