Note that this topic is also being discussed on Commons-l. I think this is a fantastic development, and hopefully a precedent for many more institutions and archives to release their assets under a free license.
-- Hay On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Ziko van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > News flash: German Federal Archives donate more than 100,000 pictures, > uploading to Wikimedia Commons has started (CC-BY-SA). > Some more details (in German): > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier > > The pictures are very important to close the lack of photographs from the > 20th century. They do not only show Germans or places in Germany, although > mostly. Many different subjects. Below some examples. > > Kind regards > Ziko > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_137-003033,_Togo,_Lome,_Verladen_von_Baumwollballen.jpg > 1885: Ship loading of cotton, Lomé in Togo > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2004-1115-500,_Wien,_deutsche_Botschaft.jpg > 1906: Vienna, German ambassy > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_116-424-046,_China,_Tsingtau.jpg > 1912: German troops in Tsingtao, China > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_137-037542,_Westpreu%C3%9Fen,_Russlanddeutsche_Fl%C3%BCchtlinge.jpg > 1920: Russia German refugees in Western Prussia > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0814-503,_Marga_von_Etzdorf.jpg > 1930: Female pilot Marga von Etzdorf > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1983-0121-500,_Berlin,_Bar_%22Eldorado%22.jpg > 1932: Bar "Eldorado", Berlin > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_152-08-35,_Dachau,_Konzentrationslager,_Besuch_Himmlers.jpg > 1936: Himmler and Hess visit Dachau > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_141-1280,_Russland,_Kessel_Tscherkassy.jpg > 1944: Encirclement of Cherkassy, Russia > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-06420-0007,_Radrennfahrer,_finnische_Mannschaft.jpg > 1950: Finnish cyclists at race Warsaw-Prague-Warsaw > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-03344-0005,_P._James.jpg > 1955: English boxer P. James > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_175-Z02-00866,_Herbert_Wehner.jpg > 1966: Herbert Wehner, then vice president of Social Democrats parliamentary > group > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_B_422_Bild-0233,_Zivilschutz,_Hubschrauber_MBB_Bo_105.jpg > 1979: German emergency helicopter > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1982-0109-013,_Katarina_Witt.jpg > 1982: Katarina Witt > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0215-032,_LPG_Hohensch%C3%B6nhausen,_Besucher_aus_Nordkorea.jpg > 1989: North Koreans visit an agricultural cooperative in GDR > > -- > Ziko van Dijk > NL-Silvolde > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
