File:Seal of OCDS, Sri Lanka.png

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Summary[edit]

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Seal of the Office of the Chief of Defence Staff, and the Chief of Defence Staff, of Sri Lanka
Author or copyright owner
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	http://www.ocds.lk/defence_chiefs_dialogue2014/image/ocds_logo.png
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Chief of the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Being an official seal, there is almost certainly no free equivalent.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Two uses only, at low resolution, in articles discussing the position of Chief of Defence Staff and the Office of the CDS of Sri Lanka
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Used in articles for illustration/identification purposes only. Being an official seal of a military, no commercial value of the logo is inherently extant: nevertheless, no infringement of any perceived commercial value is intended.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Chief of the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seal_of_OCDS,_Sri_Lanka.pngtrue

Non-free media rationale for Office of the Chief of Defence Staff
Article	Office of the Chief of Defence Staff
Purpose of use	to serve as the primary means of visual identification in the article dedicated to the entity in question.
Replaceable?	Being an official seal, there is almost certainly no free equivalent.

Licensing[edit]

This logo is an official seal of a governmental entity or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals

to illustrate the government or agency in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

Use of this seal here does not imply endorsement by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos for more information.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for seals. Do not use it for other purposes.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:54, 2 December 2017		270 × 258 (78 KB)	Jesuschristonacamel (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free logo using File Upload Wizard

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