Template:Did you know nominations/Licence laundering

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:44, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Licence laundering

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• ... that Flickr washing is a form of licence laundering in which an artist's photographs are relicenced by a third party without permission? Commons:License laundering: "Because historically this has happened most frequently with Flickr, the term Flickr washing to refer to license laundering via Flickr is also commonly encountered."
  • ALT1:... that source code laundering occurs when source code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence? Operating (system) without a license: Does Section 4 of the GPL leave Google and Android device manufacturers unlicensed? (Part 2) : " In other words, you can’t take code that you’ve received under the GPLv2 and release it under another license. This is “license laundering” and a violation of GPLv2 that would trigger Section 4."

• Reviewed: Neurological Society of India, 3rd of three (see my DYK tracker)

Moved to mainspace by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 02:54, 12 February 2017 (UTC).

• Article created on 5 February and expansion continued till 11th February. Nominated on 12th Feb so falls within date range. "Readable prose" is above 1500 characters. QPQ is done. Inline source is provided. Only one concern: one of the reference links is from Wikipedia Commons. Not sure if thats allowed as its inter-wiki domain because on en wiki, we cannot provide links for another wiki article as a reference. - Vivvt (Talk) 10:27, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

• In this case, I'm using a policy document, not a content document (article, image etc.) as a source. It probably warrants wider discussion, though, so I'll start a thread at WT:DYK. Mindmatrix 18:08, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

• See WT:DYK#Commons policy doc as a ref. Mindmatrix 18:12, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

• Looks like it was shot down in the discussion (though not much of a discussion, it could be worth re-opening). It seems to me that Wikimedia Commons would be a reliable enough source to say what Wikimedia Commons calls something, but this term doesn't seemed to have gained any external use or coverage. I would suggest using a different fact as the hook for this article. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 14:24, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
• Per Jo-Jo Eumerus's comment in the talk page discussion, I am prepared to move forward with ALT1 if the Wikimedia Commons source is moved to a See Also section. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 14:31, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• I'll work on this on Saturday or Sunday. Mindmatrix 20:57, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• Sorry about the wait, I've been rather busy lately. Anyway, I reviewed the MoS and your citation of Wikimedia Commons meets the criteria for WP:ABOUTSELF and therefore is acceptable. The article is long enough, new enough, and cited throughout. No copvios detected. ALT0 is not acceptable since there is no evidence that the term "Flickr washing" exists outside Wikimedia Commons. ALT1 is within policy, interesting, neutral, cited, and in the article. QPQ is done. AGF on the offline sources, this nomination is GTG on ALT1. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 15:41, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

• Aside: Thanks for that, though I thought I was the one causing the delay (I haven't been on WP much in the past three weeks). I spent a chunk of this morning finding and reviewing offsite articles (ie - potential sources) regarding Flickr, licensing, copyrights, and issues surrounding these aspects (there are more than I had thought about, apparently). I winnowed it down to about 20 that I expect to read thoroughly by the weekend, and maybe use to expand or adjust the article. (BTW: I've found a few references to "Flickr washing" outside Commons, but none would be acceptable sources - Slashdot, Quora, reddit, HackerNews, StackExchange, etc.) Mindmatrix 23:39, 12 April 2017 (UTC)