[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Dealing with a famous photographer

[Mathias Schindler]

On 9/2/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> Practical but not-in-the-spirit-of-it answer: Tell him not to license
> it as GFDL but to just say that Wikipedia can use it. Then we use it
> as fair use and claim to disregard the Wikipedia-only license, knowing
> full well that he won't actually sue us for infringement since he
> already said we can use it.


Then please stop saying that "wikipedia can use it" when you are only
referring to the en.wp.

If you want to make this picture free to use for wikipedia (regardless
of the language), then the author has to put one file containing the
image under a free license.

Mathias