[WikiEN-l] NASA meatballs and wikipedia meatheads

Stephen Bain stephen.bain at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 12:01:12 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  How is reproducing a public domain image going against that law? If
>  they wanted to copyright the image so that people couldn't use it they
>  wouldn't have put it in the public domain right? Wikipedia doesn't put
>  its logo under a free license because it doesn't want people to
>  well... use it? The government can't take those kind of liberties
>  without a reason though, right?

As I said, it's not subject to copyright restrictions, it's subject to
special restrictions that apply just to the NASA seal and insignia,
that are entirely separate to copyright.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com



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