Commons is fabulous and generally unknown. The problem with images, as always, is copyvios. I've been looking at coin images (connected to tuxpaint) and the number that are GFDLed appalls me. (They are clearly derivative works of the Crown Copyright original).
I've had to play the bastard and explain why we can't have images of British coins but we can have images of American coins in a GPLed program. The lead developer has asked me to write this stuff up as an FAQ ;) Of course our images of Canadian and Euro coins may have go too :(
I guess we (wikipedia) have policy on this sort of stuff but I couldn't find it trivially.. Copyright fascism is unpleasant and I'd rather quote Wikipedia policy than pull something out of my arse..
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Date: 2007-02-27 02:37 am (UTC)I've had to play the bastard and explain why we can't have images of British coins but we can have images of American coins in a GPLed program. The lead developer has asked me to write this stuff up as an FAQ ;) Of course our images of Canadian and Euro coins may have go too :(
I guess we (wikipedia) have policy on this sort of stuff but I couldn't find it trivially.. Copyright fascism is unpleasant and I'd rather quote Wikipedia policy than pull something out of my arse..