i dont think the argument here is that people can make money from commons and the pictures etc, its the fact (as i see it) that a commercial site has a link from the french wikipedia side bar to their site to make a profit. what is the difference between this and link spamming and advertising.
i have no objections to people making money, especially if it benefits WMF but i do have a problem with third parties using wikipedia to place links so they can make money regards mark On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hoi, > It has always been permitted to use the Commons work commercially. It has > always been explicitly prohibited to disallow non commercial use. > > There are two options: either we only allow OTHERS to make money or we can > make some money as well. I disagree that 800x600 is perfectly fine because, > it may be fine for online content but it is not fine when printed. What is > it that makes you oppose us to make money in order to support our > activities > ? > > I am surprised that you or MaxSem take this position. I do not quite > understand why you did not realise earlier that allowing commercial use is > what we have always done. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/1/22 Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> > > > Well, after http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Impression this project > > has been started (see also discussion on meta forum, > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Alleged Commercialisation > > of the French Wikipedia) I decided not to upload any images on Commons > > with resolution higher than 800x600 any more. (This resolution is > > perfectly fine to illustrate the articles but is substandard for any > > commercial use). One of the stewards, MaxSem, has left all Wikimedia > > projects because of this initiative. Therefore, I do not quite understand > > what we are talking about. > > > > Cheers > > Yaroslav > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
