[WikiEN-l] Non-commercial only and By Permission Only Images to be deleted

[Sam Korn]

On 12/6/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/6/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wikipedia wants the option to use the encyclopaedia for commercial
> > purposes at some point in the future (for example, selling a printed
> > version, perhaps). By refusing images with non-commercial licenses, we
> > leave our options open.
>
> Why do we have fair use images then?

If we were being entirely logically consistent, we wouldn't.  I have
agitated for changing the criterion to something along the lines of
"the image must be directly discussed by the article where the article
cannot be complete without discussion of the image", which would
thereby rule out most images with the exception of those truly
notable, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tianasquare.jpg

This would move us further towards our goal of being a *free-libre*
encylopedia.  Being an encyclopedia is of little use without being
free.

-- 
Sam