Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi Brad, I appreciate that everything that gets uploaded is not by virtue of it being uploaded to a wikimedia project GFDL licensed material. Now the crux to me is that when it is not, it is in essence in violation of the terms of the GFDL license. If this is correct, the consequence would be that material that is not available under the GFDL should not be included in a WMF project. Am I correct on this one ?
One other question, why do you single out the en.wp to take action on copyvio? What is it that makes this project special ? Would this advise not be as appropriate for any project and any language ?
If material is already in the public domain it is not subject to GFDL because it does not need to be licensed. This seems to suggest that yo would prevent inclusion of public domain material.
en-wp is probably singled out because of its high traffic. Copyright issues affect all projects in varying degrees. Wiktionary, however, does not have much to do with image copyrights because very few images are uploaded in the first place.
Ec