Daniel Mayer wrote: <snip>
The only issue as I see it, is that we don’t give reusers the option to not download user pages and other Wikipedia-specific pages. But that is a current technical problem; not a valid reason to forever forbid NC and special use images in the user or Wikipedia namespaces.
Forbidding such images for no practical reason smacks of fascism to me. So once the technical issue I mentioned is fixed, I see no valid reason for us to not be more permissive on image licensing in the user namespace (within the limits of WP:NOT a personal web page provider)
See Erik Möller (Eloquence)'s recent post to Commons-l:
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2005-September/000077.html
"Creative Commons -NC Considered Harmful"
The page where he outlines why is:
http://intelligentdesigns.net/Licenses/NC