[WikiEN-l] NASA meatballs and wikipedia meatheads

[geni]

On 01/04/2008, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Give me strength. Image deletionists are systematically going through
>  and deleting each and every image produced by NASA, simply because it
>  contains a symbol that says it's written by NASA. Apparently they
>  think that they might let me keep some NASA images if I more or less
>  pretend it was written by somebody who added it to the wikipedia by
>  actually removing the insignias.
>
>  Um. What?
>
>  So far as I can tell NASA have got a specific law that says you can't
>  fraudulently stick their (public domain!) insignia on something to
>  make it look like it was written by them when it wasn't, but other
>  than that, they very, very, very probably want you to say where you
>  got an image from, and the images/insignias/documents are not covered
>  by copyright unless they weren't done by NASA but one of their
>  contractors. In other words, you might be breaking the law by removing
>  it.
>
>  The wikipedia image guys really just absolutely have no idea what
>  they're doing, they have completely lost the plot.
>  --
>  -Ian Woollard

The logo is in effect under an ND license and by leavening it in the
image we get a ah limited derivatives image. As a result the NASA logo
is not compatible with free content.


-- 
geni