I believe all of the photos at tripod are mine. I hereby give general permission to use them all, to anybody, anytime.
With cordial regards, David Brin www.davidbrin.com --- Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/05, David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These photos all came from me and I give > permission > > for wiki use. > > > > Problem is that you must copy them from Tripod. > > Linking to them will make tripod inactivate them. > > > > Or use images at http://www.davidbrin.com/ > > > > The rest of you! I am serializing an important > essay > > on the evils of gerrymandering at > > http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ > > > > Thrive all! > > > > > > With cordial regards, > > > > David Brin > > www.davidbrin.com > > I really hate to be a pain and take up more time, > but I've spoken with > higher ups at Wikipedia to get exactly the image > policy, and the > license must satisfy at a minimum this criteria: > They must be freely reusable by anyone, for > commercial and > non-commercial purposes. Giving permission for wiki > use, while > admirable, has been decided not sufficient, as then > *only* Wikipedia > can use it, which then brings you right back to > proprietary licenses, > precisely the thing Wikipedia was designed to avoid. > :( > If you see your way clear to licensing it under the > GNU Free > Documentation License, or perhaps releasing into > the public domain, > or releasing all rights (not quite the same thing as > public domain, > but effectivel), or possibly one of the Creative > Commons licenses (but > not one of the ones that forbid commercial usage or > commercial use), > well that would go just swimmingly with your > article. > > ~Maru > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
