On 10/25/07, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
In writing the Foundation's resolution on licensing policy and enwiki's non-free content criteria (i.e. it's "exemption doctrine policy"), there appears to be a little problem. Both were designed around handling images,
.. or other media files, really. This is also implicitly stated through the language such as "uploaded media files" etc. Quotations are fine as long as they are not excessive & aren't used to substitute our own writing (e.g. an article which primarily consists of a quote). It may be sensible to have an explicit policy on text quotations at some point, but it hasn't been a problem so far except for Wikiquote, which is a difficult beast in its own right.
If you feel you need an official interpretation from WMF of what the LP means for quotes, I'm sure Mike Godwin would be happy to elaborate further. :-)