[WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree that it is annoying to think of commons admins going to all this
>> trouble just for the benefit of unknown people selling t-shirts, but if
>> people *aren't* allowed to sell t-shirts then it's not free-culture
>> project.
>>
>
> It's not a free culture project.  It's a free "educational content" (1)
> project.
>
> (1) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement

Really, to give the context, you need to quote it in full:

"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally.

In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides
the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the
support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep
useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of
charge, in perpetuity."

I agree that the "educational content" and "free license or in the
public domain" aspects do often conflict, but both aspects need to be
borne in mind when debating such cases.

Carcharoth