On 01/04/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Seems to me this is pretty similar; you appear to be worried that somebody, somewhere doing something that is not routinely done on the wikipedia could possibly break the law.
You know what? Yeah, they could. And how is this the wikipedia's problem?
Because it is a problem caused by the material being non free.
Hah! Is it a problem with a GFDL'd image that if you hand painted a meatball in it that it becomes illegal? Gasp! GFDL clearly isn't free! OMG you can't make all derived works!!!! Delete all the GFDL'd images from the wikipedia immediately!!!
No, in general it's a problem due to living a society with laws that apply to images. Some of these laws put restrictions on what images you can *make* in any way, as a derived work or *otherwise*. None of the NASA images stop you making derivatives *from* then. They are free images in any *sensible* definition.
And yes, there are images you can't make from NASA images. But they are images you can't make *anyway*.
-- geni