[WikiEN-l] Sanger's first post to Citizendium-l

Tue Sep 19 12:43:37 UTC 2006

David Gerard wrote:
> On 18/09/06, Fastfission <fastfission at 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:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BD-propagande_colour_en.jpg

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