I think what you are trying to ask -- and I don't know the answer -- is whether or not a not-for-profit organization in the U.S. would be allowed to generate revenue by hosting advertising. I can't imagine Mediawiki would even consider something which would endanger its not-for-profit status so I doubt this is a problem. It'd still be "non-commercial" in both a legal and ethical sense.
FF
On 1/1/06, Nyenyec N nyenyec@gmail.com wrote:
Would adopting ads on Wikipedia.org change the situation around image licensing? I'm mostly thinking of non-commercial only images, but I'd also like to know whether it would weaken our fair use arguments.
BTW I wouldn't mind non-obtrusive ads (a'la gmail) if it means that the servers are more responsive and the software is more featureful.
Several Mediawiki features are not developed or simply not enabled, because the servers wouldn't be able to handle the load.
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