[Commons-l] press release

Tue Nov 14 19:20:01 UTC 2006

On 11/14/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> When I first wrote this it said GFDL.  Now it says "Original logo
> copyright Wikimedia Foundation.  This picture is made of the hundreds
> of free licenses of the images used to make it.  Screenshot under the
> GFDL (?)"
>
> Which is a big contradiction.  The logo is not under a free license,
> so a derivative of it can't be under the GFDL.  And many of the images
> are under copyleft licenses, so derivatives can't be under a
> non-commercial license.
>
> Yeah, yeah, it's such a small deal, who cares...  Considering the
> nature of this project the answer should be "we do".
>
> Anthony

this is the reason I've been removing wikimedia logos from wikipedia
whenever I run across them. The downside is that example.jpg is
apparently no longer culturally neutral and I'm worried that an edit
war is going to start on [[logo]]

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geni