[WikiEN-l] A new way of image uploading. Sort of

geni geniice at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 13:25:27 UTC 2007


On 2/23/07, Nick Wilkins <nlwilkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the common concerns that image owners bring up is the potential for
> commercial re-use of their images.  Would it be proper to make it explicit
> that uploading the image (and placing it under a free license) means that
> they would have to allow that?  In a perfect world, they would read and
> understand the text of the license; of course, it's not a perfect world.
> Regardless that they *should* know, it would probably be good if we did our
> best to avoid the situation where uploaders get mad at us when they find out
> the "hard way" that their images can be used commercially by others.
>
> -- Jonel

I think "allow everyone to use, modify, and redistribute your work for
any purpose" covers that but there is still space on
[[Wikipedia:Fromowner]] if you want to mention it again.


-- 
geni



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