Rama Neko <ramaneko(a)gmail.com> hat am 19. Mai 2008 um 10:29 geschrieben:
Our mission is to collect and make available Free
content. That is content
which can be used for any purpose without a fee, can be modified at will,
and whose modified version must be available under the same terms.
"Available to everybody" is not Free. It is what is on the Web. Yann, you
should really be more rigourous before suggesting that people have "got it
all wrong".
Also, this has been discussed over and over and over again, can we *please*
move on ?
No we can't. As Daniel said unless you make a rule 160 years after publication
there is always a theoretical risk that an anonymous work is copyrighted. This
would be a new rule and require some consensus.
Personnally I think the 100 year rule is safe as things can be safe in life. It
is practiced in many other wikis and by many big commercial publishers.
If Commons decides for a 120 or 160 year rule we can adapt Mediawiki so that
images for example from German Wikipedia can be used everywhere. They have a 100
year rule.
We have a tendency to interpret laws to the disadvantage of ourselves. Clever
people wouldn't do that.
Regards
Robin