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Commons:Village pump

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:Sorry, but wrong and wrong. As GFDL is an accepted license on Commons, the licensor may add any other license of his/her choice. Please read [[Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses]] correctly: ''You can offer as many licenses for a file as you want as long as at least one of them meets the criteria for free licenses above. For example, files under a "non-commercial" license are OK only if they are at the same time also released under a free license that allows commercial use.''. --[[User:Túrelio|Túrelio]] ([[User talk:Túrelio|talk]]) 14:41, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

:Sorry, but wrong and wrong. As GFDL is an accepted license on Commons, the licensor may add any other license of his/her choice. Please read [[Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses]] correctly: ''You can offer as many licenses for a file as you want as long as at least one of them meets the criteria for free licenses above. For example, files under a "non-commercial" license are OK only if they are at the same time also released under a free license that allows commercial use.''. --[[User:Túrelio|Túrelio]] ([[User talk:Túrelio|talk]]) 14:41, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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::Túrelio is right that users may add whatever licenses they wich (free or unfree) as long as there is at least one free licence to pass [[COM:L]] − this is covered by [[Commons:Multi-licensing]].
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::Túrelio is right that users may add whatever licenses they wish (free or unfree) as long as there is at least one free licence to pass [[COM:L]] − this is covered by [[Commons:Multi-licensing]].

::The catch is that the GFDL 1.2 is “unfree in practice”, and you are right Hex that these people use it as a loophole to have as non-commercial as can be here − all easier for me to claim as they do not even try to deny it. One might want to [//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk:Featured_picture_candidates&oldid=82383281 read the debate] that took place at Commons_talk:Featured_picture_candidates five months ago, which eventually resulted in disallowing "GFDL only" and "GFDL and an NC-only license" for Featured pictures.

::The catch is that the GFDL 1.2 is “unfree in practice”, and you are right Hex that these people use it as a loophole to have as non-commercial as can be here − all easier for me to claim as they do not even try to deny it. One might want to [//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk:Featured_picture_candidates&oldid=82383281 read the debate] that took place at Commons_talk:Featured_picture_candidates five months ago, which eventually resulted in disallowing "GFDL only" and "GFDL and an NC-only license" for Featured pictures.

::[[User:Jean-Frédéric|Jean-Fred]] ([[User talk:Jean-Frédéric|talk]]) 15:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

::[[User:Jean-Frédéric|Jean-Fred]] ([[User talk:Jean-Frédéric|talk]]) 15:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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