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I noticed that [[:Category:Public domain images]] contained [[:Category:Creative Commons images]] as a subcat, and was thus being used to categorise free images in general rather than just truly [[wikipedia:public domain|public domain]] ones. This was problematic because [[wikipedia:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]] images are by definition ''not'' public domain; while public domain images are copyright-free and owned by everybody (or nobody, depending on how you look at it,) the copyrights of Creative Commons-licensed images are still property of their owners; the CC license just makes the images freely and easily reusable by people like us without the complications inherent in using non-free copyrighted images. | I noticed that [[:Category:Public domain images]] contained [[:Category:Creative Commons images]] as a subcat, and was thus being used to categorise free images in general rather than just truly [[wikipedia:public domain|public domain]] ones. This was problematic because [[wikipedia:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]] images are by definition ''not'' public domain; while public domain images are copyright-free and owned by everybody (or nobody, depending on how you look at it,) the copyrights of Creative Commons-licensed images are still property of their owners; the CC license just makes the images freely and easily reusable by people like us without the complications inherent in using non-free copyrighted images. | ||
I moved [[:Category:Creative Commons images]] out of [[:Category:Public domain images]] and into a new category, [[:Category:Freely-licenced images]], which now also contains [[:Category:GFDL]] and [[:Category:Public domain images]] as subcats. I think that should neatly untangle the image license categories and make them a bit less confusing.— [[User:Rob T Firefly|Rob T Firefly]] - '''[[User talk:Rob T Firefly|Δ]][[Special:Contributions/Rob T Firefly|∇]]''' - 04:33, October 11, 2011 (UTC) | I moved [[:Category:Creative Commons images]] out of [[:Category:Public domain images]] and into a new category, [[:Category:Freely-licenced images]], which now also contains [[:Category:GFDL]] and [[:Category:Public domain images]] as subcats. I think that should neatly untangle the image license categories and make them a bit less confusing.— [[User:Rob T Firefly|Rob T Firefly]] - '''[[User talk:Rob T Firefly|Δ]][[Special:Contributions/Rob T Firefly|∇]]''' - 04:33, October 11, 2011 (UTC) | ||
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I noticed that Category:Public domain images contained Category:Creative Commons images as a subcat, and was thus being used to categorise free images in general rather than just truly public domain ones. This was problematic because Creative Commons images are by definition not public domain; while public domain images are copyright-free and owned by everybody (or nobody, depending on how you look at it,) the copyrights of Creative Commons-licensed images are still property of their owners; the CC license just makes the images freely and easily reusable by people like us without the complications inherent in using non-free copyrighted images.
I moved Category:Creative Commons images out of Category:Public domain images and into a new category, Category:Freely-licenced images, which now also contains Category:GFDL and Category:Public domain images as subcats. I think that should neatly untangle the image license categories and make them a bit less confusing.— Rob T Firefly - Δ∇ - 04:33, October 11, 2011 (UTC)
