On 8/1/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Every nonfree image cuts into our status as a free resource; it also
Can you explain that a bit more? I don't know what it means to be a "free resource" or why exactly we want to be that. What makes one more or less "free"? Is an image resource with 10,000 free images and 1000 fair use less free than one with 9,000 free and 0 fair use?
affects downstream and commercial reusers of content, who likely can't afford to track down the copyright holder of every single nonfree image and license them, so they just filter them out en masse. So "nonfree" ends up becoming "no picture at all".
That sounds like a technical problem. Sounds like we need a way to gracefully degrade from non-free to free. Maybe a template that can specify which image a content reuser should fall back on if they don't want to use non-free images.
Steve