[WikiEN-l] not sure what I should do

[Florence Devouard]

Did you, sweet Geni, read me well here ? I said I will just let the 
picture be deleted. I do not understand your aggressivity (though I am 
used to it). I wish that you would allow a peaceful working 
environnement though.

Ant

geni wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hmmmm. True.
>> Well, I do believe it is a bit stupid though. There is not even a legal
>> problem really.
> 
> CC-BY-ND? No but what has that got to do with anything. Our copyright
> policy is more restrictive than the law and rightly so.
> 
>> I doubt the copyright holders of that picture (hmm,
>> parents ?) would complain.
> 
> We could steal a lot of photo without people complaining. However
> youtube is that way if that is what you want.
> 
>> They know their son loved Wikipedia, they
>> were happy that he left a legacy there and the picture is at the same
>> time acceptable but of poor quality.
> 
> So contact them and try and get the photo released under a free
> licence. Or accept that the legacy exists beyond the photo.
> 
>> If I were just a anthere, I would try to suggest new rules so that every
>> user is allowed ONE non free image of himself on his user page :-)
> 
> You've just proposed allowing the addition of 4,390,475 unfree images
> to wikipedia. No thank you.
> 
>> It
>> seems to me there should be room for negotiation on such matters.
> 
> um unblock-I?
> 
> 
>> But a new policy proposed by the chair would cause all sorts of problems
>> and messes I am not willing to get in.
> 
> Not at all it would be trivial to flat reject it. Short of an outright
> board resolution it is not going to happen. Of course en.wikipedia is
> not the only wiki managed by the wikimedia foundation. Projects such
> as meta appear to have rather different copyright polices.
> 
>> I'll let him die a little bit a second time.
> 
> You can only die once (ignoring some unsubstantiated reports).