Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Evstafiev-bosnia-cello.jpg

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This image is one of my favourites. It was taken during the war in 1992 in Sarajevo in the partailly destoyed National Library. The cello player is local musician Vedran Smailovic, who often came to play for free at different funerals during the siege despite the fact that funerals were often targetted by Serb forces. (Mikhail Evstafiev)

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-- Rama 07:02, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
and "as long as they illustrate topics which are not politically motivated" is not exactly what I would call a "free licence" (which is required for commons) -- Gorgo 00:19, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, do you think? As long as an article conforms to NPOV, it can't exactly be political propaganda... but of course Commons has a higher threshold for such things than Wikipedia. QuartierLatin1968 01:35, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Images must be allowed for commercial use, I think political promotion is a form of commercial use. Therefore this image cannot stay. Would be excellent even for poor resolution. --Ikiwaner 06:08, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
"political promotion is a form of commercial use" ? I don't realy understand what you mean by that, but let me point out that this image is still in Cc-by-sa, as agreed by the author. I will contact him, though, to acertain this matter. Rama 06:22, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
commons is not only meant to be a picture-repository for the wikipedias, it is actually meant to be a ressource for free media. See Commons:Criteria for inclusion and Commons:Licensing All material on the commons must be licensed under a free license that allows anyone to use the material for any purpose. -- Gorgo 08:42, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Gorgo, the Cc-by-sa is a free licence. Rama 10:01, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Mikhail Evstafiev has been kind enough to answer in a way which, I think, favourably acertains the matter. I think that we can now safely abandon licence concerns. Rama 11:03, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Result: 14 support, 1 neutral, 3 oppose => featured norro 23:14, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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