[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?
Delirium
delirium at rufus.d2g.com
Fri Feb 20 21:17:52 UTC 2004
Sean Barrett wrote:
>>If each wikipedian took 10 pictures of the interesting things he visits, I'm
>>sure we would not need nonfree pictures any more.
>>
>>
>
>No matter how many pictures I take of the interesting things I visit,
>I will never take a picture of Bob Keeshan (1927-2004) -- and you will
>not find a free picture of him.
>
>
However, it may not be impossible to acquire one eventually. As
Wikipedia gets more famous, the estates of famous people may start to
dislike the fact that that person's biography has a conspicuous lack of
an image, and consent to GFDL-licensing an image to fill the gap. If we
fill it in with a fair use image, that removes the incentive.
-Mark
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