[Wikipedia-l] Re: image copyright
Michael Snow
wikipedia at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 19 07:08:26 UTC 2004
Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I would strongly prefer that people not post images to wikipedia
>
>with permission *just* for Wikipedia. We're a GNU-free project,
>and we will always remain such.
>
Special:Upload should have a much more obvious statement of this than
merely a checkbox for "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file
agrees to license it under the terms of the
[[Wikipedia:Copyrights|Wikipedia copyright]]." It ought to have a
warning similar to what shows up below the box on an editing page,
without the stuff specifically oriented to text. Like this:
"All contributions to Wikipedia are released under the GNU Free
Documentation License (see [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] for details). If you
do not want your contribution to be modified and redistributed at will,
then do not submit it. By submitting your work you promise you created
it yourself, or copied it from [[public domain]] resources--this does
not include most web pages. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT
PERMISSION!"
Can we get this change made, please?
--Michael Snow
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