[WikiEN-l] Seals and Commons

Wed Sep 14 19:20:21 UTC 2005

On 9/14/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> considered an exception? -- but it seems clear to me, anyway, that it
> is not "free" in the sense required to be listed on Wikipedia Commons.
> In the United States its usage is restricted fairly heavily, including
> the "non-commercial" bugaboo. It looks to me like, in effect, this
> would be a "copyrighted with permission but no commercial use" tag.
> Which, as I understand it, is verboten.

This is something to discuss on the Commons, or on commons-l.  I don't
see that a discussion of the Commons' policies can possibly be
relevent on wikien-l.

> Personally, I'd shoot at first suspicion that something was not really
> in the public domain

Perhaps that's why you aren't given a gun.