Daniel Mayer wrote:
Michael Becker wrote:
So the new and improved notice will read:
"All content is
available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License. See Wikipedia:Copyrights for suggested practices."
There is one problem with this; it is a lie. Wikipedia has many photos that
are used under "fair use" or "non-commercial use" doctrines.
If the above is a lie by that argument, so is claiming that "all text"
is under the FDL when some portions of that text at any given time may
be copyright violations cut-n-pasted by a newbie.
Any non-FDL-compatible images, just as non-FDL-compatible text, are
mistakes that need to be removed when they are found to be such.
On another front, it is often alleged that _true_ "fair use" of some
non-FDL material (both text and images) _is_ compatible with the FDL.
_If_ we accept this as true, then those ought not to affect the argument
above, as only compatible ones are to be kept, and they're compatible.
_If_ we reject it as false, then we throw out more images, and the above
argument again does not change.
That's a question for the lawyers in the house, though, of which I'm not
one.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)