On 6/11/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Would someone please explain to me (I've asked before, so I'm pretty sure no one can/will, and it won't matter) how the GNU Free Documentation License can possibly apply to images? It seems that, by the words of the license, you have to modify the image itself to conform to the license, because none of the images have the copyright attached to them. Then, once you've attacked the copyright notice, why the hell would you want to use the image, other than to demonstrate how it can't possibly be applied to images, in which case images uploaded under GNUFDLBLAHBLAHBLAH are completely worthless, because no one else can ever use them except under limited and crippling conditions.
Condtions are not too crippling online and offline well. Collect enough together and you have a decent amount of radition shielding.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSFDL
for an attempt to fix this.