Salve,
probably my list was not complete: Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 18:52 schrieb Richard Stallman:
B - getting the right to use this picture only on official Wikipedia server/ mirrors, CD-Roms & official Wikipedia books (a special new licence) C - getting the right to use this picture with a redused quality and size D - creating a non public pay per view area inside the wikipedia
If Wikipedia did any of these things, it would no longer be free. We would need to start another project to be the free encyclopedia.
*g* My intention was not to start B,C or D, only to try to list all possibilities - I agree that this wouldn`t belongs to a free project.
It makes no sense to put completeness above freedom. Wikipedia should do as good a job as it can do while remaining free.
Wouldn`t be this aim also would match for
E - using this picture with "fair use"
?
So instead of B or E we could please the right owner to support us with the use: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Because these licenses will - make shure that wikipeadia could use it still in future - let us use it internationaly, too - be an advantage for the right owner, becouse it would be more restrictive than "fair use".
I would be really happier, when Wikipedianer would ask for a license, instead of beeing too lazy and argue only with "fair use". rob