[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?

Thomas R. Koll tomk32 at gmx.de
Fri Feb 20 23:47:41 UTC 2004


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:42:02AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>   The Foobar company stands in the way of our including a picture of this.
> 
> This text, with no link and no details about the image, would name and
> shame the Foobar company, but would not help Foobar sell copies of the
> image.

Bad idea. Maybe if they try to sue use for no good reason or violate
the license, but any other offence is not in the free spirits I have.


BTW: What is your opinion on who manages the copyrights of IP-users?
Whe had an discussion on de: where I argued that Wikimedia Foundation
manages the rights.

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