Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
I don't know who put the last 2 categories there,
but it has been obviously
done without general consensus and IT BREAKS THE F***ING LAW -
if you're putting such image on GFDL-ed article you're breaking copyright
of authors of the article - they didn't give you permisions to distribute
non-GFDL derivates of their work.
I don't think it's at all clear that including "fair use" content in a
GFDL article has any material impact on GFDL compliance.
I have yet to see anyone who wants to take that argument to the
logical conclusion, i.e. that no GFDL article can quote even one
sentence from any copyrighted source. May an article on Tom Clancy
quote a line from one of his books? May an article on Star Wars
discuss the line "Use the force, Luke?"
Such quoting is normally done under the "fair use" convention.
We also have to make it legal to distribute Wikipedia
in Europe,
which have different copyright laws, especially when it comes to
what in USA is called "fair use", and what is usually described
explicitely by copyright laws.
I do support making it easy for people in most countries to be able to
redistribute Wikipedia, but of course it is not possible nor desirable
to attempt to comply with *every* law of *every* country.
--Jimbo