Commons:Deletion requests/File:Apricot and cross section.jpg

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File:Apricot and cross section.jpg

Hi there, i don't understand why there is CC-BY-NC pictures in wikipedia, it's not open licence, is it an error ? 09:49, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi. You are right that CC-By-NC is not an open license accepted on Wikimedia Commons. If the file was only published under CC-BY-NC, it would not be hosted on Wikimedia Commons. But this file is multi-licensed: it is also available under the GFDL 1.2, which is considered a free licence accepted on Wikimedia Commons. The GFDL 1.2 has some, er, features which make it so that in some circumstances, it may be more convenient for reusers to follow the terms of the CC-BY-NC rather than the GFDL 1.2.

(This way of doing things has been challenged and debated within the Wikimedia Commons community, and was ultimately kept that way)

I hope that answers your question. I‘d be happy to discuss it more, but in the meantime I will close this deletion request as there is nothing problematic about this file based on current Wikimedia Commons policies.

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 10:29, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Ok thanks a lot you have replied to my answer, I understand. Regards,--Openelearning (talk) 11:01, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

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Kept: Denniss (talk) 11:30, 16 June 2014 (UTC)