[Wikipedia-l] Re: GFDL Clarification

Phil Boswell phil.boswell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 12:42:26 UTC 2005


"Timwi" <timwi at gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:d7ajq0$887$1 at sea.gmane.org...
[snip]
> Quite to the contrary, you only asked if the image could be used on 
> Wikipedia, not whether they would license it under the GFDL or anything 
> else. Therefore, they only agreed to using it on Wikipedia, and therefore 
> it should not be used on Wikipedia because it isn't free.

Am I the only person stunned by the complete lack of logical progression 
here?

A) The owners of the image agreed for it to be used on Wikipedia
B) Therefore it can't be.

Surely we can sort out our licensing system better than this 
self-contradictory nonsense?
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 






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