[WikiEN-l] Public Domain and Non-Commercial at the same time

[David Alexander Russell]

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Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> There's a peculiar copyright case for the governmental works
> from Philippines.
> 
> Apparently, they are at the same time in the Public Domain
> and under a Non-Commercial/Permission license, or at least
> the current template claims so:
> 
>    "this work is only available in the public domain under a
>    non-commercial and permission-based license"
> 
> Also, it claims that the images should be used "in accordance with
> Wikipedia's fair use policy", but none of the 500+ images have any
> fair-use rationale...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-PhilippinesGov
> 
> 

I think that is probably a mistranslation of original government text.
My guess is that it actually means 'this work is only available _to the
public_ under a non-commercial and permission-based license'. Not having
seen the original (and not being able to understand any language other
than English or /extremely/ basic French) I can't guarantee this however.

Cynical
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