Tomasz-
This reasoning is exactly the greatest danger to
Wikipedia - you
want us to give up important freedoms to get a little more content.
People who think like that are much greater threat that all Helgas and Lirs
project ever had.
I could respond on the same level, but I won't. It's a matter of balance
-- what freedoms do you lose? You might lose the freedom to take all of
Wikipedia's images and sell them as the "Coca Cola photo collection" for
50 bucks. Big deal. As I said, having the respective flag in the "image"
table would be sufficient for any third party to easily filter out images
which contradict commercial use.
Not only it is perfectly acceptable, it is THE ONLY
RIGHT THING TO DO.
Because you say so? I don't care about an ideologically defined "RIGHT
THING TO DO". I care about results.
> Fair use is acceptable as per the current
consensus on [[Wikipedia:Image
> use policy]]. You may use any quasi-dictatorial powers you have on pl. to
> enforce your point of view, but this will not be possible on en.
There has never been any contensus about that.
I don't know about pl:, but policies on en: are developed through
discussions. This is how the current image use policy was created. Jimbo
has said that fair use, in limited scope, is acceptable. I agree: Fair use
is the last desirable of all choices because it is so vaguely defined. It
should only be used for very important images.
What you call "pragmatism" is in fact
short-sightedness.
No, I am thinking very much about how Wikipedia will look 10 years from
now.
Regards,
Erik