The problem is that one (for-profit) publisher of wikipedia which is not
the wikimedia foundation could say: "hey, look what terrific
images we have got in this publication"... And AFAIK that
goes against that very license.
GFDL implies absolute freedom or nothing at all. In this spirit,
Richard Stallman had two or three interventions in this mailing list
some months ago.
But IANAL (and probably those images are not THAT terrific though :)
Pedro.
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:41:14 +0100, KNOTT, T <tknott(a)qcl.org.uk> wrote:
> On the other
> hand, it's a less free license than many we use.
<snip> but since to
comply with our existing licencing obligations it
would mean offering
two copies of the database, I think anything that cannot be
distributed under the GFDL should be avoided.
But we already incorporate fair use images. It's not fair use to uses
someone's image to advertise your product - so what's theproblem with
this licence?
Theresa
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