https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50948

--- Comment #11 from Volker Haas <[email protected]> ---
@Betacommand: 
There is no bug, the software works as intended. The software is just
configured in a way that does not suit your current need. At the moment it is
not possible to pass any user-configuration for specific PDFs/collections to
the rendering software. Therefore it is not possible to include fair-use images
for specific collections. 

@Greg:
I can't point you to any public discussion regarding that issue. There has been
lot's of talk regarding image copyrights related to the Collection Extension,
but I don't remember anything specific about fair use images.

@MzMcBride:
The code is not really the problem, it's the configuration which explicitly
removes fair use images. 

All this happens in mwlib's licensechecker
https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/blob/master/mwlib/writer/licensechecker.py
The licensechecker supports three modes:
* nofilter (include all images, adding license info where available)
* blacklist (exclude all images marked as nonfree)
* whitelist (include only images that are marked as free, thus removing images
with an unknown license)

The license information is imported from a csv file (
https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/blob/master/mwlib/writer/wplicenses.csv ).
This file contains the info about fair use images:
> "Fairuse",,"nonfree",,"- Copyrighted content that may be used as 
> ''fair-use'', but since the commons does not accept ''fair use'' content this 
> image will need to be deleted. [[Commons:Licensing#Material under the fair 
> use clause is not allowed on the Commons|See here for details why]]."


The PDF writer is currently configured to use blacklisting for all wikipedia
projects except for the german wikipedia. In the german wikipedia we are using
whitelisting after a community uproar about including images with an unknown
license in the PDFs.
( https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib.rl/blob/master/mwlib/rl/rlwriter.py#L190
)

So, that's pretty much all I can say about that topic.

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