On 17/01/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
umm we use Free art images on wikipedia. [[Image:Heckert_GNU_white.svg]] for example.
I've just read the Free Art license. Are we not violating the following section? "3. INCORPORATION OF ARTWORK All the elements of this work of art must remain free, which is why you are not allowed to integrate the originals (originals and subsequents) into another work which would not be subject to this license." We are integrating the artwork into Wikipedia, which is not subject to that license...
A work can't claim copyright on another work. "Viral licences" aren't. What they can do is require distribution of a merged work to only be under their conditions. An image on an article page is an aggregation of two separate works, the text and picture.
- d.