2009/7/20 Stephen Bain <[email protected]>:

>> 'To me the problem is the Wikipedia
>> rule of public use,' says Jerry Avenaim, a celebrity photographer. 'If
>> they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow
>> photographers to maintain the copyright.'"

> We should definitely take advice from a professional photographer who
> doesn't understand what a licence is.


He does - he's a Wikimedia contributor! I'd suggest a quote got
over-compressed there.

The Slashdot coverage appears surprisingly clueful - i.e., that
reusability and a proper free license comes first.


- d.

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