[WikiEN-l] Seals and Commons

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Fastfission wrote:
> Of course, when I raise things like this on Commons, I seem to incite
> a lot of ire from people who want to pick nits about whether or not
> its usage is limited because of its *copyright* or because of federal
> laws.

Commons ought to be extremely conservative and cautious about what to
accept.  It is more important that Commons be free, than that it be
comprehensive in every last detail.

Delete it.

> Any ideas? I tend to think that any image with this sort of legal
> restriction does NOT qualify as "free" in the sense required by
> Commons and is antithetical to its purpose -- to provide a repository
> of "free" images.

Absolutely agreed.

--Jimbo

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