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Commons:Village pump/Copyright

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:As explicitly stated in [[meta:Licensing update/Questions and Answers#Images]], the migration does not affect which image licenses are allowed to be used on Wikimedia projects. ''—[[User:LX|LX]] ([[User_talk:LX|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/LX|contribs]])'' 08:57, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

:As explicitly stated in [[meta:Licensing update/Questions and Answers#Images]], the migration does not affect which image licenses are allowed to be used on Wikimedia projects. ''—[[User:LX|LX]] ([[User_talk:LX|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/LX|contribs]])'' 08:57, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

::But unfortunately I can't see a clear guideline at [[Commons:Copyright_tagsdeed.en]]. [[Commons:Copyright_tagsdeed.en#GNU_Licenses|It]] says "''Please note: The GFDL is rather impractical for images and short texts, because it requires the full text of the GFDL to be published along with the image. This is prohibitive for print media: in order to use a single image in a newspaper, a full page containing the GFDL would have to be printed. To resolve this, please dual-license your work under GFDL and an equivalent Creative Commons license like CC-by-sa-3.0 (see below). This helps to make your work usable not only freely, but also easily.''" [[Commons:Copyright_tagsdeed.en#Copyleft_Attitude_License|Further]] it says even GNU recommends FAL, not GFDL for artistic works. "The FAL is recommended by the Free Software Foundation: We don't take the position that artistic or entertainment works must be free, but if you want to make one free, we recommend the Free Art License." [[User:Jkadavoor|J]][[User talk:Jkadavoor|Kadavoor]] [[Special:Contributions/Jkadavoor|J]][[:Category:User:Jkadavoor|e]][[Special:ListFiles/Jkadavoor|e]] 12:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

::But unfortunately I can't see a clear guideline at [[Commons:Copyright_tagsdeed.en]]. [[Commons:Copyright_tagsdeed.en#GNU_Licenses|It]] says "''Please note: The GFDL is rather impractical for images and short texts, because it requires the full text of the GFDL to be published along with the image. This is prohibitive for print media: in order to use a single image in a newspaper, a full page containing the GFDL would have to be printed. To resolve this, please dual-license your work under GFDL and an equivalent Creative Commons license like CC-by-sa-3.0 (see below). This helps to make your work usable not only freely, but also easily.''" [[Commons:Copyright_tagsdeed.en#Copyleft_Attitude_License|Further]] it says even GNU recommends FAL, not GFDL for artistic works. "The FAL is recommended by the Free Software Foundation: We don't take the position that artistic or entertainment works must be free, but if you want to make one free, we recommend the Free Art License." [[User:Jkadavoor|J]][[User talk:Jkadavoor|Kadavoor]] [[Special:Contributions/Jkadavoor|J]][[:Category:User:Jkadavoor|e]][[Special:ListFiles/Jkadavoor|e]] 12:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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:::Works licensed only under the GFDL are accepted, but such licensing is discouraged. What's unclear? ''—[[User:LX|LX]] ([[User_talk:LX|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/LX|contribs]])'' 13:40, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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