[Foundation-l] RfC: Draft licensing policy resolution

[Peter van Londen]

Hallo

EDP is the worst idea I have ever heared of. The resolution is supposed to
clear things up, but in fact is now doing the opposite. NC and ND is not
allowed, except if you have a EDP. You see what will happen? Whole
communities will be tested once again. Fair use is NC and ND, but you can
use it because of EDP.

I am sorry, but this is not a resolution I can back up.

Peter van Londen/Londenp

2007/2/20, effe iets anders <effeietsanders op gmail.com>:
>
> I think the idea is that as soon as you can create a gallery, you dont
> need
> the EDP for that subject, as you have enough images. So only use it when
> there is nothing else available and it is really needed.
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2007/2/20, jkelly op fas.harvard.edu <jkelly op fas.harvard.edu>:
> >
> >   Hi,
> >
> > Quoting Erik Moeller <erik op wikimedia.org>:
> > > # Such EDPs must be minimal. Whenever possible, content used under an
> > > EDP should be replaced with a freely licensed work if it carries
> > > equivalent information content. Media used under EDPs are subject to
> > > deletion if there is rough consensus that they lack an applicable
> > > rationale. They must be used only in the context of other freely
> > > licensed content, and may not be arranged in galleries.
> >
> >   I suggest that this needs some additional discussion.  If en:'s
> > experience is
> > typical, saying that replaceable unfree media is acceptable until it is
> > actually replaced, instead of being possible in theory to replace,
> reduces
> > the
> > incentive to create or find free content considerably.  Further, I'd
> > suggest
> > that the "burden of consensus" really needs to be that the unfree media
> is
> > a
> > justifiable exception to our goal of producing free content.
> >
> >   Additionally, the "gallery" phrasing strikes me as strangely
> > specific.  en:'s
> > articles that are substantially galleries of unfree images tend to be
> > formatted
> > using templates to recreate <.table> functionality, as opposed to using
> > the
> > gallery tag.  Perhaps you didn't mean the gallery tag specifically, but
> it
> > was
> > easy to read it that way.
> >
> >                                Jkelly
> >
> >
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