On 5/14/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
He did make that choice three months after uploading the image. It is a matter of speculation whether he would have changed the licence if he had been approached. The presumption should be that someone uploads under GFDL, and that presumption should hold in the absence of evidence to the contrary. In the case of a self-portrait it would be especially difficult to find contrary evidence. The fact that the picture was originally GFDL would not be changed by the addition of the CC-BY-ND licence.
The photo was never GFDL. The french upload form did not mention the GFDL when the upload was done so any assumption of GFDL is unwarranted.
The actions of the rule obsessed in seeking to enforce their POVs retroactively upon the dead is disturbing.
The rules are being enforced on those using wikipedia now.
This person has been dead less than two years, so it's conceivable that his heirs are there, and steps can be taken to annoy them with petty requirements.
Given french law the requirements are hardly petty
However, the copyright on this would stiill have another 68 years to go, and we would do well to seek strategies that would make such images free before things get too far beyond the copyright owner's death.
The easy option would be to shift the whole thing over to the foundation or meta wikis where there are no wider copyright issues to consider.