[Foundation-l] A letter to Wikipedia collides with the non-free content policies

Remember the dot rememberthedot at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 03:32:57 UTC 2008


The foundation's input would be appreciated in resolving this issue. A
scanned letter addressed to "Wikipedia" was uploaded to the English
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Studentsorry.jpg

The author of the letter did not release it under a free license, and Mike
Godwin, the foundation's legal counsel, clarified that the recipient of the
letter (Wikipedia) does not have the right to freely license it.

The letter has no encyclopedic use, and was uploaded mainly because it is
humorous.

So the question is: is keeping this letter one of the "limited exceptions"
to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy?

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