[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image license tags

Justin Cormack justin at specialbusservice.com
Wed Mar 8 14:21:48 UTC 2006


On 8 Mar 2006, at 14:16, Kat Walsh wrote:

> On 3/8/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" tag is a problem: of the  
>> seven images
>> so tagged, two of them had decidedly non-free "provided that"  
>> clauses,
>> forbidding modification and commercial use.
>
> This holds with what I've seen... the majority of the
> "CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat" images that I've seen are not free
> (some are "provided that this image not be used for commercial use"!)
> -- enough so that I wonder if it wouldn't be better to get rid of the
> template altogether and ask the copyright holders of the other images
> to license under CC-BY.
>

As Jimbo pointed out once before, its better to let people upload
under these tags and then speedy the images, rather than make them
incorrectly label them as free. Hence the unknown tag too.

Feel free to remove them.

Justinc




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