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Copy of email correspondence

Email correspondence: Polish version Original version of the correspondence: Witam, Jestem jednym z redaktorów Wikipedii, wolnej encyklopedii internetowej ( http://pl.wikipedia.org ). Piszę z pytaniem, czy możliwe byłoby wykorzystanie zdjęć senatorów ze strony Senatu w naszej encyklopedii? Wymagałoby to udostępnienia ich na licencji GNU FDL, która pozwala na ich dowolne użycie i rozpowszechnianie pod warunkiem podania ich autora/źródła (w tym wypadku byłby to link do strony Senatu). Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź. Pozdrawiam, Paweł Dembowski Szanowny Panie, Kancelaria Senatu jest wlascicielem praw autorskich fotografii senatorow zamieszczanych na stronach www.senat.gov.pl. Nie zglaszamy zadnego sprzeciwu jesli ktos wykorzystuje nasze zdjecia czy informacje na swoich stronach (bardzo milo jest jesli zgodnie z dobrym obyczajem i prawem podaje zrodlo). Encyklopedie sa waznym i potrzebnym zrodlem informacji - tym bardziej wyrazamy zgode na publikowanie i udostepnianie zdjec senatorow ze strony Senatu. Serdecznie pozdrawiam Andrzej Andruszkiewicz Dzial Internetu Witam, Dziekuje bardzo za pozwolenie na uzycie zdjec w naszej encyklopedii. Zeby jednak sprawa byla calkiem jasna, musze dodac, ze cala tresc Wikipedii (w tym zdjecia) udostepniona musi byc na Licencji Wolnej Dokumentacji GNU ( http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL ) lub kompatybilnej z nia licencji, ktora pozwala na uzycie objetych nia tresci nie tylko w Wikipedii, ale takze na dowolne uzycie i rozpowszechnianie (rowniez komercyjne), pod warunkiem podania informacji o wlascicielach praw autorskich do danego zdjecia oraz pod warunkiem udostepnienia dziela, w ktorym objete ta licencja dziela bylyby uzyte rowniez na tej samej licencji. Dlatego tez nasza encyklopedia jest nie tylko darmowa, ale rowniez wolna. Czy zgadzacie sie wiec Panstwo rowniez na udostepnienie zdjec na licencji GNU, czy tylko na umieszczenie ich w Wikipedii? Jesli to drugie, to niestety nie bedziemy mogli ich uzyc. Z gory dziekuje za odpowiedz. Pozdrawiam, Pawel Dembowski Szanowny Panie, Udzielajac Panstwu zgode na uzycie fotografii bralismy pod uwage filozofie licencji GNU. Na wszelki wypadek, po Pana e-liscie, jeszcze raz skonsultowalem z prawnikiem te kwestie. Nie mamy zastrzezen by zdjecia byly udostepniane na licencji GNU. Pozdrawiam Andrzej Andruszkiewicz DI English version Translated by Radosław Botev: Dear Sir or Madame, I am one of the editors of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia (http://pl.wikipedia.org). I am writing to enquire whether it would be possible to use the photographs of the Senators from the Senate website in our encyclopaedia. It would require releasing them on the GNU FDL license, permitting their free use and redistribution provided that the author / source is attributed (in this case it would be a link to the Senate page). Thank you in advance for your reply. Sincerely Yours, Paweł Dembowski Dear Mr Dembowski, The Chancellary of the Senate is the copyright holder for the Senators' photographs published on the website www.senat.gov.pl. We do not object to our pictures or information being used on other websites (we would appreciate quoting the source as required by the law and the good custom). Encyclopaedias are an important and useful source of information, all the more we do permit the use and redistribution of the Senator's pictures from the Senate website. With kind greetings, Andrzej Andruszkiewicz, Internet Department Dear Mr Andruszkiewicz, Thank you very much for your permission to use the pictures in our encyclopaedia. However, in order to completely clarify the issue I have to add that all the content of Wikipedia (including the pictures) must be released on the GNU Free Documentation License (http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL) or a compatible one that allows the unrestricted use and redistribution of the pictures (also for commercial purposes) on the same license and on the condition of attributing the copyright holders. That makes our encyclopaedia not only free of charge but also free to reuse. Therefore, I would like to ask whether you also agree to release the pictures on the GNU license or only to publish them on Wikipedia. In the latter case, we will unfortunately not be able to use them. Thank you in advance for your reply. Greetings, Paweł Dembowski Dear Mr Dembowski, Permitting you the use of the photographs, we did consider the philosophy of the GNU license. Just in case, after your e-mail I once again contacted our lawyer to consult the issue. We do not object to the pictures being released on the GNU license. Greetings, Andrzej Andruszkiewicz Internet Department

Discussion of email correspondence

Can somebody please post a translation of the quoted conversation? —xyzzy_n 14:49, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I have just translated it. I see one problem though. The correspondence states that we can use the pictures of the Senators, but I see we also have other pictures on Commons (like that of the Pope in the Parliament, for example Image:John Paul II Polish Parliament 1999.jpg). --Botev 21:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we should email them again and ask for clarification? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:11, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:PolishSenateCopyright/lang should be created

I excluded {{GFDL/lang}}, because {{GFDL}} and {{PolishSenateCopyright}} is not the same and thereby shouldn't be mixed up
--D-Kuru (talk) 15:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Versions

I'm not sure if we can really relicense this template. They never actually said "version 1.2 or any later", I only see they have agreed to GNU (such as it was back then). I think it should be version 1.2 only. On the other hand they say something about the "philosophy of GNU" with remains the same under Creative Commons, but I'm not sure if it's enough for relicensing. --Botev (talk) 06:35, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

The GFDL website and the page on relicensing says that not specifying the license could only be the current one at the time releases a work under the current one at the time and all later versions. 209.98.117.11 14:26, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

OTRS?

Is there an OTRS ticket for this? 76.65.128.132 22:08, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid not. It would be here otherwise. --Botev (talk) 23:41, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Deprecated

I added {{Deprecated}} to this template, since although it is fine for old uploads, it should not be used for new ones. Due to new partnership with the Chancellery of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, there will be a lot of new images from Senate uploaded to Commons and they will not be using {{PolishSenateCopyright}}. Some of the new uploads will be full resolution versions of older low-res images using {{PolishSenateCopyright}} and will replace them using new license. --Jarekt (talk) 12:03, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Surplus line-break

{{editrequest}} If this template is put on a non-filepage the {{iffile}} part doesn't output anything – except a blank line which produces surplus whitespace. Therefore the line break in front of the <includeonly> tag should be removed. --Patrick87 (talk) 22:09, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Done. Killiondude (talk) 05:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)