[Wikipedia-l] Re: What would Richard Stallman say?

Fri Feb 20 10:44:58 UTC 2004

"Michael Snow" <wikipedia at earthlink.net> schrieb:

> I know that we carefully say that "All text is available under the terms 
> of the GNU Free Documentation License", without saying anything about 
> the images.

I also see another reason why I want to get rid of this: I see several
copiers who copy Wikipedia articles, keep them under GNU/FDL, but copyright
their layout. Whether this goes against the GNU/FDL or not, it certainly
goes against the _spirit_ of the GNU/FDL. I would like to speak up against
it, but currently I feel we are very weak there, because we do something
very similar ourselves. I would want to change this text to "This article
is available..."

Having said that, I think requiring that the image must be usable for
anyone might be overdoing it. I would say, the article including the image
should be usable for anyone. That is, having the image with a text equal
to or derived from the Wikipedia text should be ok, just taking the image
alone out need not be.

The very least we should do is to flag those images that are not under the
GNU/FDL, not only on the image page, but also on the using page.

Andre Engels