--- Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
It's completely reasonable, but it's not necessarily a smart idea nor one our licensing scheme accomodates for. As it is, even User pages are included in our GFDL licensing
Now I think I understand where you are coming from. Correct me if Im wrong, but you think that having NC and special use images displayed on a page whose text is licensed under the GNU FDL to be legally incompatible or even illegal. This is not the case and is something that we hashed out many months ago and confirmed with RMS. So while having these images for practical purposes makes the whole document less reusable, the presence of the images is technically and legally allowed under the aggregation clause of the GNU FDL (see 8.7 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_Li... ).
Now by policy we want to make our encyclopedia as redistributable as possible so we do not allow NC and special use images in the encyclopedia. That is something I completely agree with and very strongly support. But the reason we do that is *not* due to legal incompatibility with the FDL. So parts of Wikipedia that are Wikipedia-specific need not follow the same rule and would still be perfectly legal.
They can be reused accordingly and often are.
Where has such use been intentional? Ive only seen cases where a reuser also publishes user pages just because they were included along with articles.
-- mav
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