On 5/8/07, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I should say, the rules do not make this a gray area, but actual practice does.
If we look at the case of replaceable fair use there is a clear precedent that practice does not produce a grey area.
Well, I personally think uses like the following templates should be acceptable. They currently aren't (this is what I mean by gray area) but I see no reason to limit their use on wikipedia for wikipedia functions. If we want to take the stance of not using this material anywhere we should strip it from the top left as well, or make it GFDL.
No because the interface is not part of our output of free content (it is GPL in any case).
This is unacceptable to the foundation, so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Interwikitmp-grp
I general I prefer rules to follow what people are actually doing. Yes, the policy itself is clear, but everyone ignores this aspect of it. Not to say that's good or bad, but there is a discrepancy.
I generally regard the second as an interface element so an exception can be argued. The first use should cease however since it is unnecessary.