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

[Bryan Derksen]

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"!)
>   
I actually did some poking around in the conditional use image category 
just last night, and while I didn't keep a rigorous tally I didn't find 
any that weren't free of onerous conditions. The vast majority of them 
were simply "free for any use as long as the artist is credited." 
Perhaps the non-free ones get weeded out over time. But even in the new 
images that Mark checked only two out of seven were a problem (out of 
two _thousand_ total) so I don't see this as a major concern.