[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 21:12:32 UTC 2006


On 17/10/06, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although gmaxwell will eat me, yes. GFDL is _viral_ too. The bigger trick
> of GFDL and which may make some parties to still pay for it is that you need
> to include a copy of the GFDL (several pages). If it hasn't other license,
> they
> must contact you (and get an agreement) to use it without such terms.


Yes. For using images in print, the GFDL is pretty much a pretend free
content license, as the terms are ridiculously onerous in practice.


- d.



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