On 18/09/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
(I think the intent and basic mechanisms of the
GFDL are great. I
think the implementation is poor. I suspect that anything which
implemented the GFDL as poorly as Wikipedia does would not hold up
strongly in court.)
In particular, the GFDL for images is pretty much a pretend
free-content licence and not effectively one at all. "Yes, you can
freely reuse our images in print if you print the entire text of the
licence next to it." Uh, yeah.
Here's a great cartoon explaining this, and why you should dual-license
images:
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