Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "with an active link required"

Files found with Special:Search/"with an active link required"

Useful stock photos of topical and social media subjects which all say in their descriptions that an "active link" is required, to one of a few "...catalog.com" URLs, e.g.:-

Credit s.quotecatalog.com/quotes/inspirational with an active link required. Images are free for usage on websites (even websites with ads) if you credit "source" with an active link to s.quotecatalog.com/quotes/inspirational.

Saying that an image cannot be used if it lacks an "active link" (which I assume is meant to mean that the credited URL can be clicked to be taken to that website) would preclude use in print and some video contexts, or on websites that don't support active linking, so this seems to go against COM:LICENSING.

Belbury (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per my comments on VP. Even if it weren't for the outright impossibility of fulfilling this request in print media, any conditions on reuse beyond the requirements of the Creative Commons license render a work non-free. Omphalographer (talk) 19:27, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My question is, do these exaggerated conditions make null and void the terms of the more free license? I am not sure that is the case. Bedivere (talk) 21:31, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per nomination. We must close the door to Copyleft Trolling. SV1XV (talk) 08:27, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "with an active link required"

Files found with Special:Search/"with an active link required"

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