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Flinfo has extracted the license below from the metadata of the image (tag "{{{2}}}" contained "{{{3}}}"). The license visible at Flickr was "{{{1}}}".

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As of version 2.5, the Flinfo tool can, for certain specially whitelisted Flickr accounts, examine the EXIF data of the images and extract license info from the image's metadata. If it can determine that the metadata specifies a free license, it considers the image OK to upload to the Commons even if the visible Flickr license is more restrictive.

If this occurs, Flinfo inserts this template in the "permission" section of the image description.

The template takes three parameters. The first is the original license as shown at Flickr (e.g. "Attribution License", or "All rights reserved"). The second gives the EXIF tag in which Flinfo found some other license indication, and the third shows the tag contents that made Flinfo decide the way it did.

As an example, consider this photo at Flickr, which, at Flickr, is marked as "All rights reserved". However, Flinfo can figure out that the image is actually in the public domain. It tags the image as {{PD-USGov-Military}} and sets the permission field to contain

{{FlinfoExifLicense|All Rights Reserved|IPTC:CopyrightNotice|Public Domain}}

which expands to

Flinfo has extracted the license below from the metadata of the image (tag "IPTC:CopyrightNotice" contained "Public Domain"). The license visible at Flickr was "All Rights Reserved".

Flickr accounts for which this feature is to be used must be explicitly whitelisted by the Flinfo maintainer. If you find similar cases, you can ask for whitelisting of accounts at flinfo's talk page.