[WikiEN-l] Some images need to be deleted...

[Abigail Brady]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:09, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrighted
> 
> Clicking from here to "What links here" we find:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=MediaWiki:Copyrighted
> 
> It looks like there are only 9 images which purport to be "used with
> permission".  These are not acceptable for Wikipedia.
> 
> Under Clause 7 of the license, it's perfectly o.k. to include such
> images in a GNU FDL document as aggregations, so my concern is not
> particularly *license* related.  That is, I don't think our including
> these images is a license violation.  (Images are clearly the sort of
> "separate and independent documents or works" contemplated by that
> section of the license.)
> 
> But our goals are loftier and more pure than the GNU FDL.  We want our
> content to be maximally reusable, period.
> 
> Therefore, these images should be deleted.

If these images should be deleted, then so should all the fair use
images.  I fail to see a distinction here.

-- 
Abi