[WikiEN-l] Re: [HelpDesk-l] permission
Justin Cormack
justin at specialbusservice.com
Tue Nov 15 00:17:01 UTC 2005
On 14 Nov 2005, at 19:12, Brown, Darin wrote:
> I agree that there is a lot to be gained by rewarding people for
> original
> work. Still, I think each case should probably be decided on its own
> merits, case by case. I can imagine a case where there was a free
> image
> available, and also a clearly superior fair use image where the
> fair use
> issue was not in doubt. In that case, I would find it hard to
> justify using
> an inferior free image simply because it was free? I know this runs
> counter
> to pure open-source thinking, but I keep thinking our primary goal
> is to
> make the best encyclopedia possible, and if that means occasionally
> favoring
> fair use to free images, then I don't see a problem. But if the
> images are
> even roughly equivalent in quality, certainly the free should win out.
No the primary goal is to make a free encyclopaedia. It will be the
best one
as a byproduct.
And the aim is not to finish the encyclopaedia next week it is to
build a
structure that will create an encyclopaedia, and non free content as
Jimbo
said detracts from that structure by discouraging the creation of free
content and hence a free encyclopaedia.
You are of course free to fork wikipedia, within the license terms
and try
to make a better non free version. For example you could pay to license
good images for it.
Justinc
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