> i dont think the argument here is that people can make money from commons > and the pictures etc, its the fact (as i see it) that a commercial site > has > a link from the french wikipedia side bar to their site to make a profit. > what is the difference between this and link spamming and advertising. >
Well, this is one point. Another point is, as far as I know, Wikimedia.fr, which benefits from the commercial use, does not transfer money to support other projects. I would not object to commercial use of MY pictures if I knew that the profit is in a transparent (like donations) way invested in the infrastructure of the whole foundation. So far, I have not seen any evidence that this is the case. On the contrary, the main argument in the discussion was "We have decided to do it in French Wikipedia, and Meta has nothing to say about this". >I disagree that 800x600 is perfectly fine >> because, >> it may be fine for online content but it is not fine when printed. Not really, I can print it out and it works fine. But not as a poster of course. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l