User talk:AlisonW/Licensestatustest

The discussions have centered more around the different copyright statuses of logos, but I didn't want to use a logo as the 'demo image' because of the risks! --AlisonW 00:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

• I'm not sure I understand what the goal is here? Mixing of free and non-free licenses seems like a very bad idea which shouldn't be encouraged. On the other hand, I think indicating which countries something is PD in and which they are not could be helpful in some cases, though I imagine in most that nobody is going to figure out more than one or two countries at a time (i.e. "I know this is PD in US and Germany but I don't know about anywhere else for sure"). --Fastfission 05:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Basically, whilst we (all WMF projects) can look at an upload and take its copyright status from the locale of the uploader or from the locale of the servers our re-users (on projects or otherwise) don't always know what status might apply to that reuse. If someone in Australia, or Germany (who, in fact, have), or India decides to create a DVD or articles *with images* then the copyright status that applies is a neccessary piece of knowledge, otherwise you end up with a copy without images. This is a thought on a possible way to meet that requirement. --AlisonW 09:18, 14 September 2006 (UTC)