[WikiEN-l] Image of the day
Jimmy Wales
jwales at wikia.com
Mon Jan 28 12:37:59 UTC 2008
Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Carl Beckhorn wrote:
>> Personally, I find it strange to think that any nonfree content not
>> under the control of the foundation should appear on meta.
>
> And I find it completely bizarre that there is apparently no place
> anywhere within any of the foundation's projects that we can host an
> image that's explicitly licensed for our use.
>
> I'm all for free content and all, but this has the unsettling feel of
> fundamentalism.
I don't want to endorse the charge of "fundamentalism," which seems a
bit harsh to me. But I did want to support the idea that it is one
thing to say that our encyclopedic and other *works* need to be freely
licensed because that's what we are here for, and another thing to say
that absolutely everything in every place has to be freely licensed.
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