[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?

Thu Feb 19 17:39:22 UTC 2004

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0500, Sascha Noyes wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:10 pm, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:57:32PM +0100, Yann Forget wrote:
> > > I agree 100 % with that.
> > > Replace fair use images with free one when possible,
> > > and use fair use it when we can't avoid it.
> >
> > Like when can't we avoid using "fair use" images ?
> > It's actually very simple to do - just don't use them.
> > You can still write good article without a few images.
> 
> Have a look at [[My Lai Massacre]], [[Donald Rumsfeld]], etc. There are plenty 
> of historical events that have copyrighted pictures, where there is no 
> possibility of replacing them with free ones. (Unless, of course, you have a 
> time machine)

So we'd have articles without images. Is this really such a big problem ?