The below is outdated information. For the latest info on the subject, go to this thread over here
There are some people who are uploading photos on behalf of various hybridizers out there.
For example, I know that Calif_Sue and Vic have both spent their winter talking to hybridizers of daylilies (and other plants) and getting their permission to upload their photos to our database.
Those photos still belong to the hybridizer and are being shown here on ATP by permission, exactly as if the hybridizer had uploaded the photos themselves.
Now, on the other hand, there are collections of images out on the web that are licensed under certain restrictions that would allow you to use those images on your own website. Some license examples are GPL and Creative Commons.
The question has come up: do we allow GPL, CC and similarly licensed images to be used in the database? After contemplating the matter, my answer is "no, not at this time."
Only photos that have been specifically granted permission for us to use without restriction can be uploaded into the database.
This policy doesn't affect the other areas of the site (specifically the articles, where GPL images are frequently used).
