[Foundation-l] RfC: Draft licensing policy resolution

[GerardM]

Hoi,
If you read carefully you will have noticed that there is no need for a
consensus in all the projects. First of all, where the board makes a ruling
that some things are not acceptable they are not acceptable. No consensus
needed. When some projects decide to allow for Fair Use and others not, this
will be acceptable provided the respective laws are abided by.

So, nothing new here.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 3/5/07, luke brandt <shojokid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kat Walsh wrote:
> > On 2/20/07, jkelly wrote:
> >>   Hi,
> >>
> >> Quoting Erik Moeller:
> >>> # 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.
> >
> > I agree with this... yikes, definitely needs revision if that's what
> > it's implying.
> >
>
> Hi - It seems there is no consensus for this position:-
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use#promophotos_in_other_language_editions
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use#Why_we_delete_replaceable_Fair_Use
>
> - luke
>
>
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