All files on Wikimedia Commons are freely licensed. Non-free files are copyright violations and have to be deleted ASAP.

I guess you want to find only PD and CC0 files to avoid attribution of the files? Every CC-BY-(SA) and GFDL file needs attribution of the copyright owner (=photographer in most of the cases) and the concrete license.

This would be helped by T95026, because all Commons images are free.

@Jdlrobson This task is not a duplicate of T124225. This task aimed to allow PageImages to expose a freely licensed page images; that is very different from requesting that PageImages never expose non-free images. I would strongly suggest unmerging these tasks.

In T95378#1954107, @Deskana wrote:

@Jdlrobson This task is not a duplicate of T124225. This task aimed to allow PageImages to expose a freely licensed page images; that is very different from requesting that PageImages never expose non-free images. I would strongly suggest unmerging these tasks.

Feel free to unmerge aand edit the descriptions of both tasks to be clearer as I'm not seeing much difference. From what I understand you are asking for a slightly different variant of T124225 where the provider can ask specificially for a non-free image rather than the supplier prohibiting them from ever getting a non-free image. Is that right? I'm not sure I understand the use case there can you enlighten me?

In T95378#1954268, @Jdlrobson wrote:

Feel free to unmerge aand edit the descriptions of both tasks to be clearer as I'm not seeing much difference.

The difference is already explained in the descriptions. I would be happy to elaborate on it; see below for that.

From what I understand you are asking for a slightly different variant of T124225 where the provider can ask specificially for a non-free image rather than the supplier prohibiting them from ever getting a non-free image. Is that right?

Exactly! Yes. :-)

I'm not sure I understand the use case there can you enlighten me?

Sure, I'd be happy to.

If you're using the PageImages extension on, say, the English Wikipedia, a non-free image would be perfectly appropriate and in-line with both the legal side of things and the relevant policy on enwiki with regards to non-free image use. You would want whatever is best, non-free or not. (PageImages currently does this)

If you're using the PageImages extension for, say, Share-A-Fact cards, you may want to choose a free image over a non-free one to further improve the shareability of the card. You may want the non-free image, or the free image, depending on product considerations. (This task is for that)

If you're making a list of articles (e.g. Gather) outside the mainspace on, say, the English Wikipedia, and want to comply with the relevant policy on non-free images, you cannot use non-free images. You would want free images only.

So, you can see that depending on the location the PageImage is meant to be displayed, you may want either whatever image is best (free or non-free), or only free images. This is why it would be best for PageImages to be able to show you both what it thinks is best (which it does now), and whatever it thinks is best subject to being free (which is what this task is for).