I think a little courtesy would go a long way. If you have a fork you can
make different rules especially with respect to images but please respect
Wikipedia's rules too.
Fred
From: Bjorn Lindqvist
<bjrn.lindqvist(a)telia.com>
Reply-To: bjrn.lindqvist(a)telia.com, wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:48:27 +0100
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] I don't care what Richard Stallman would say
Well, I don't really see it as so much of a
race. Sure, we'd like
people to turn to us for information, but as I see it we're just going
to so completely dominate everyone with our information that there
really is no competition. Already most people I know IRL turn to
How about I fork Wikipedia. And while you suckas scramble to try to
get permission from the probably dead photographer who took the Che
Guevara-face photo MY fork has more pictures than playboy. Would your
friends still prefer Wikipedia??
I want the images. Those who took the images WANT us to use them
(provided we reference them). Readers want the images. Mirrors of
Wikipedia want the images. The copyright laws are stupid. GFDL is
stupid. And the right way to get stupid laws changed is not to obey
them.
Be reasonable.
BL
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