Am Mon, 2003-06-02 um 01.09 schrieb Marco Krohn:
I see it the same way as you do, but Erik claims (at
least for images) that
these are different pages with a different license that are added together by
the server and by that we don't violate the GFDL. So he basically says that
he found a loophole in the GFDL which allows mixing free / non-free content.
Like 99% of the people here, I am not lawyer, but here is my
opinion - how I interpret GFDL, how I think the spirit of GFDL is:
IMHO articles should be seen as one work, and therefore it is
100% GFDL, or it violates the GFDL.
Personally, I would not like to see "my" work being combined with
non-free content.
Another thing:
Until now, I did not notice that the English Wikipedia says "This text
is available ...", while the German Wikipedia says "Diese Seite..."
("This page ...") "... is available under the terms of the GNU FDL".
I also do think that this discussion belongs to another mailing list,
wikipedia-l, and therefore cross-posted this message (sorry if I offend
someone by this, but I think it is not fair to the Wikipedia users
that general, important issues are discussed in a place where the
subject is normally just software development ...)
Best regards,
Zeno Gantner