(Christopher Mahan <chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com>)m>):
--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> wrote:
I'll echo the "I don't know"s,
and add a complication: pictures and
text are a bit different. Almost all the text in Wikipedia was
made
collaboratively, and is therefore unquestionably FDL. But many of
the
pictures are either public domain or used under "fair use", so
using
them in another work would have no affect at all on that work.
I'll second the "I don't know" and add that images should be treated
carefully, becaue when someone gets images from someone else, while
that someone else might grant use of the image to W, that same
someone else may not grant the use of the image for any other
derivative work that is not part of W. Thus, the someone else needs
to be asked essentially whether their image is going in the public
domain, or in the FDL, or for W use only.
If you find such an image on wikipedia (i.e., one for which permission
was granted only to wikipedia), it should probably be replaced if at
all possible by a more freely usable one, either PD, or FDL licensed
itself, or usable under "fair use".
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC