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User:Colin/AppropriatelyLicensed

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[[Commons:Licensing|Commons licensing policy]] currently asks uploaders to refrain from using only impractical licences, such as the GFDL, GPL and LGPL for images. This proposal takes this further to disallow such license choices for new uploads. Such licence choices, once a necessity, are now only being made by those who wish to restrict reuse of their work. This does not help Commons build a repository of [[:en:free content|free content]]. Our aim is to ensure all content is usable ''by anyone, anytime, for any purpose'' and they can [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition "legally and practically exercise"] their rights without the need to contact the owner or consult a lawyer.
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[[Commons:Licensing|Commons licensing policy]] currently asks uploaders to not pick impractical licences, such as the GFDL, GPL and LGPL, as the only licence choice for images. This proposal takes this further to disallow uploads with such impractical license choices for new uploads. Such licence choices, once a necessity, are now only being made by those who wish to restrict reuse of their work. This does not help Commons build a repository of [[:en:free content|free content]]. Our aim is to ensure all content is usable ''by anyone, anytime, for any purpose'' and they can [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition "legally and practically exercise"] their rights without the need to contact the owner or consult a lawyer.

We propose to add a new "Appropriately licensed" section to [[Commons:Licensing|Commons licensing policy]], and to add ''appropriately licensed'' as part of the definition of what is an "acceptable licence" on Commons.

We propose to add a new "Appropriately licensed" section to [[Commons:Licensing|Commons licensing policy]], and to add ''appropriately licensed'' as part of the definition of what is an "acceptable licence" on Commons.

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