[Foundation-l] Re: Copyright issues...walking on thin ice

Wed Aug 11 15:12:49 UTC 2004

Ah, that is a great idea! I might try and push for something like that on the en version, if it isn't being done already. Unfortunately, I've been gone so long that I don't know how these {{}} tags actually work. Could someone point be to the appropriate article on en that explains them? Thanks!

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:23:11 +0200, Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:56, mbecker a écrit :
> > Well, I'm glad the copyright issues have been cleared up. Thank you
> > everyone for your responses. Is any work being done to allow the tagging of
> > images as copyrighted or GFDL? I would like to see this happen before we
> > have millions of copyrighted images on wikipedia. Otherwise, it could be a
> > lot more work trying to find the copyrighted images to tag them. It
> > concerns me that some of our free (as in freedom, not beer) content is
> > dependent on non-free content. However, if we can draw a clear line between
> > copyrighted and GFDL content on the database side of things, I think this
> > will help keep the free and non-free content separate, allowing anyone to
> > use our free content freely, without a risk of accidentally including
> > non-free content.
> 
> On fr:, we are doing it now.
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilisateur:Tipiac/images
> and the list is getting smaller every minute.
> 
> We use the following tags whenever possible:
> {{GFDL}}
> {{DomainePublic}}
> {{FairUse}}
> {{LicenceInconnue}} (unknown)
> 
> So later on, we can either clarify or remove the unknown licence images.
> 
> 
> 
> Yann
> 
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