[WikiEN-l] Some images need to be deleted...

Wed Feb 18 20:04:22 UTC 2004

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrighted
>
>Clicking from here to "What links here" we find:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=MediaWiki:Copyrighted
>
>It looks like there are only 9 images which purport to be "used with
>permission".  These are not acceptable for Wikipedia.
>
>Under Clause 7 of the license, it's perfectly o.k. to include such
>images in a GNU FDL document as aggregations, so my concern is not
>particularly *license* related.  That is, I don't think our including
>these images is a license violation.  (Images are clearly the sort of
>"separate and independent documents or works" contemplated by that
>section of the license.)
>
>But our goals are loftier and more pure than the GNU FDL.  We want our
>content to be maximally reusable, period.
>
>Therefore, these images should be deleted.
>
>--Jimbo
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