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

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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