Data administrators, Administrators
26,004
edits
Talk:Wiki: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Use of images with GNU license: Replied
Minh Nguyen (talk | contribs) (→Use of images with GNU license: Replied) |
|||
|
Is this statement right: «[[Collaboration_with_Wikipedia#Using_pictures_from_Wikimedia_Commons_for_tag_description/Map_Features_page_on_this_wiki|You are NOT allowed to use pictures with GNU-License like GFDL or GPL.]]» Is it, because they are generally incompatible with any other license and this wiki uses CC BY-SA? --[[User:Chris2map|Chris2map]] ([[User talk:Chris2map|talk]]) 19:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Chris2map}} I think this statement is based on Creative Commons's determination that [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ShareAlike_compatibility:_GPLv3 CC BY-SA is compatible the GPL but not vice versa], and no such determination exists for the GFDL. One mitigating factor is that [[c:Commons:Village pump/Proposals/Archive/2018/08#No longer allow GFDL for some new uploads|Wikimedia Commons has banned new GFDL-licensed images]] since 2018. However, I'm not sure if these considerations about license compatibility are relevant for most situations where we would use these images. Other wikis like Wikipedia have always interpreted each article as a separate work, and indeed each image embedded in each article as a separate work, following standard academic and journalistic practice. Just think of all the news articles you've read that include a CC BY-SA-licensed image, with attribution but without turning the whole news site into free content. This depends on creating a clear delineation between the article text and the image and clear access to the full attribution. So you definitely can't sprinkle GFDL-licensed emoji images within an article's text, for example. Anyhow, you might want a more informed take from the LWG before reworking the page. – [[User:Minh Nguyen|Minh <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Nguyễn</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Minh Nguyen|<span style="display: inline-block;">💬</span>]]</sup> 21:01, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
| |||