Andre Engels wrote:
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.
Sorry, but if we start conceding that in effect, we are combining an
article with an image into a single document under GFDL, downstream
users have to be able to use the image alone. We are licensing them to
modify the document, and potential modification includes stripping out
all the text and just leaving the image. We cannot restrict downstream
modification--that's essential to copyleft.
--Michael Snow