Topic: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
Started by: Joshua BishopRoby
Started on: 3/30/2006
Board: Publishing
On 3/30/2006 at 1:32am, Joshua BishopRoby wrote:
Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
God damn do I love the wikifolk. When the wikifolk finally buy out Google or the other way around, we will acheive the information apocalypse, I swear.
I found the Wikimedia Commons today. It's a repository of half a million image files, all free for any use.
I only wish I had time to pore through the site for a few hours or days.
On 3/30/2006 at 4:10am, Bryan Hansel wrote:
Re: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
Sweet! I found some nice Commando pictures for PEQ, which I can't figure out the license. One of the images is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commando_jauber1.jpg
Can anyone translate the license to plain english?
On 3/30/2006 at 3:02pm, jerry wrote:
RE: Re: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
Bryan wrote:
Sweet! I found some nice Commando pictures for PEQ, which I can't figure out the license. One of the images is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commando_jauber1.jpg
Can anyone translate the license to plain english?
There is a license called the "Free Documentation License", which they link to. You need to follow the restrictions of that license if you wish to use the image.
The license itself is relatively short for an open source license (although I'd prefer it be shorter), but it's basically your standard open source license: if your use of the image would otherwise be a copyright violation, the work you use it in needs to be released under the Gnu Free Documentation License.
The license allows anybody else to also use your work, provided that they also follow the restrictions of the Gnu Free Documentation License.
On your part, you are required to make your work available in a "transparent" format, that is, one which is a standard format that is easily implemented by computer programmers, and which is easily editable in standard text editors. When I publish Gnu FDL texts, I prefer to use HTML for this format (although I also publish as RTF and PDF); eventually, I expect XML to take over as my preferred format.
You will, of course, want to read the license to understand the requirements of the license.
Jerry
On 3/30/2006 at 3:33pm, Nathan P. wrote:
RE: Re: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
Very cool. Still check each individual copyright notice though - many of them are for use only as long as you give your derivation or use the same open license, which you may or may not want to do.
On 3/30/2006 at 4:00pm, jasonm wrote:
RE: Re: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
Bryan wrote:
Sweet! I found some nice Commando pictures for PEQ, which I can't figure out the license. One of the images is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commando_jauber1.jpg
If you need chest-bumping commando images, the United States armed forces have big collections of same, and all of it is in the public domain and super high-resolution. For example, here's a picture of some guy getting ready to blow some shit up. Here's a HALO jumper.
On 3/30/2006 at 11:49pm, Bryan Hansel wrote:
RE: Re: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
Holy Cow! There are tons and tons of cool and free military images on the government sites. Sweet!
I just found an image of a friend of mine!!! http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/031022-F-2185G-001.jpg He's getting ready to blow some shit up! Here's the blurb:
TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq -- Tech. Sgt. David Featherstun lines up Soviet, O-832 DU, 82 mm, high-explosive filled mortars for demolition. Featherstun is part of the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's explosive ordnance disposal flight here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Karolina Gmyrek)
