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::Yeah, basically a good idea. A dropdown-box would be great, but I've no idea how to do that. I'll do some research. I think the problem ist that most users don't know anything about licensing and don't even want to know that. So they don't mind. If they upload their own pictures, it's no problem to publish them under GFDL by default. If they "steal" pictures somewhere (which seems to be an usual approach), we have a problem. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
::: Ok, I edited UploadText, and I guess we can have it for the time being, although in future would be great to have a dropdown box (no license chosen - no upload...). I also added info about GFDL by default - that's actually cool since there will be no need to put newly uploaded pictures without a license to a category "License missing" - it is a responsibility of a user to read upload's directions carefully, and if he/she uploads a copyrighted material which Hitchwiki licenses under GFDL, no one can blame the latter one.
::: I just don't know what to do with the pictures that are already uploaded to Hitchwiki without licenses. My suggestion: license them under the GFDL as this is now a license by default, and possibly send a msg to users who uploaded these pictures notifying that if they don't agree with that they can chose other licenses (including non-free licenses like CC BY-NC-ND and such (own copyright??)).::: As one can see from the UploadText, we actually do not forbid non-free licenses (hm, what about own copyright? Hitchwiki now states "''do not upload '''any''' copyright protected material''"...) but both default and recommended licenses are [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OtherLicenses free], and that's what a user is most likely to chose from. --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:08, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
