[WikiEN-l] Seals and Commons

Thu Sep 15 07:46:26 UTC 2005

David Benbennick wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's being discussed on commons-l and commons itself:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Trademarks

> 
>>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.
> 

I thought all admins got a mop, a bucket, and an M16!

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