User talk:Nicholas Kruger

This: Image:Farmhouse 101.jpg and This: Image:Climate of Karasburg.jpg are great pictures! Thanks for uploading them. There is some problems with it's copyright. Do you mind telling me where you got the images? (You can answer on this page by clicking 'edit this page' and typing your answer below). Jon513 (talk) 19:12, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My cousin and I were visiting my grandfather's farm near Karasburg, he took the pictures and e-mailed them to me thereafter, giving me permission to do whatever I want with them, so I decided to add them into the article on the town.

That's Great! The problem is that you said that the only Wikipedia has permission to use this file. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, since explicit permission to use it was given, this is in fact not the case, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it. You have to relicense the images under a more permissive license. Goto the image pages and replace the warming messages with {{GFDL-self}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. Any of those options are fine; each license is a little different in terms of what it allows other to do with it. Jon513 (talk) 19:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The pictures have been deleted because of the licensing problem, but don't let that stop you from uploading it again under a correct license. Jon513 (talk) 19:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm totally new at this, so I am esentially clueless when it comes to copywrite stuff so i'm sorry if I wasted your time,but at least I learnt something as well.

Image copyright problem with Image:Paarl Boys' High.gif

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Paarl Boys' High.gif. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:37, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Paarl Boys' High.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Paarl Boys' High.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Skier Dude ► 02:50, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]