Template talk:Image-license

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This is a meta template for image license boilerplate templates. It inserts machine-readable information about licenses into the html. Tools like Picture Popups rely on this information to display the licensing information.

Usage
{{subst:image-license|licensename|category|icon|text}}
Arguments
  • licensename
    The name of the license which this template will apply to images, e.g. GFDL or Public domain.
  • category
    The name of the category in which the images with this template will be included, without the Category: prefix.
  • icon
    The name of the image which will be displayed in the box, without the Image: prefix.
  • text
    The text that will be displayed in the box

Contents

[edit] Standardizing license templates

If you are using this meta-template to standardize license templates:

  • Use subst:
  • Be careful not to change the wording of the license text in the same edit. Any changes to the content of the license notice should be dealt with separately.
  • Leave a meaningful edit summary, like Standardizing license templates with [[Template:Image-license]].
  • Strike out the converted template in the list below and sign.
  • If you have found a license template which you don't know how to standardize with this meta-template, leave a message here.

Zocky 18:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)</nowiki>

[edit] For image creators

[edit] Public domain

[edit] General public domain images

[edit] Public domain dedications

[edit] Public domain art

[edit] USA public domain images

[edit] USA Federal government images

[edit] USA military public domain images

[edit] Other countries' public domain images

[edit] Other public domain images

[edit] Free licenses

[edit] "Any-purpose" "copyright"

[edit] BSD licenses

[edit] Creative Commons licenses

[edit] Free Art license (License Art Libre)

[edit] GNU licenses

[edit] MIT license

  • {{MIT|Copyright holder}}


[edit] NZ government copyrights

[edit] UK government copyrights

  • {{CrownCopyright}}
  • {{LearningandSkillsCouncilCopyright}}
  • {{NationalAuditOfficeCopyright}}
  • {{NHSCopyright}}

[edit] US state government copyrights

  • {{ILGov}}

[edit] Fair use

All done except for the depreciated tags, which are likely going away shortly. JYolkowski // talk 03:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images of unknown usability

[edit] Presumed Free images

[edit] Tags for deprecated images

[edit] Unfree Images

[edit] General non-free licenses

[edit] Disclaimers

I have no problems with this standardization in general. However, people seem to be using it as an excuse to insert "subject to disclaimers" without mentioning this in the edit summary. Does anyone know where this addition originated? Superm401 | Talk 21:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

It seemed to be on many of the original templates and I figured that it means that our assertion that something is licensed under a particular license is subject to disclaimers, not that the copyright status of public domain works is somehow subject to disclaimers. That made sense to me, so I put it in. IIRC, it then got removed and re-added, but I didn't follow that closely. Zocky 00:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I think that this "subject to disclaimers" text shouldn't be used on any template that isn't strictly a licence template (for example, fair use is not a licence). So I think it shouldn't appear in this template (and if someone wants to add it to a licence, then they should do that independently). JYolkowski // talk 02:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. It was in the template just for one day. Zocky 16:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)