[pd-discuss] Contact between Wikimedia Foundation and Wellcome Trust regarding image collections?

Thu Jan 13 19:07:07 UTC 2011

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Rob Myers wrote:

> On 01/13/2011 07:47 PM, Michael S. Hart wrote:
> >
> > Is there some reason for this that you haven't stated?
>
> Plagiarism is not a licencing issue, and banning commercial use is
> inconsistent with the concepts of the public domain and of free use.

I think something was missed here:

The point -I- am arguing with is that they are not considering works
that are given for all but commercial use. . .which is pretty much as
close as you can get to completely public domain without letting them
make money from selling your files.

What is the reason for NOT including work that is freely distributable
other than for commercial purposes???

Michael