On 11/28/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia
I've tweaked this and filled it out a bit. It's hard writing about legal issues in very simple grammar; I'd like juriwiki-l in particular to look over this and check that I haven't oversimplified, particularly in the "how to comply with this licence" sections.
The only section that hasn't been written yet is content under GPL/LGPL - anyone think they can write two simple sentences on how to comply with this licence?
It should probably also be merged with the similar page on meta.
- d.
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I read the license so I could write this, but I have absolutely no idea what to write. The entire license is about how you have to distribute the source code, and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftware says it has to be "clear what constitutes the "source code" for the work." Since I can't think of what the source code for images would be, I don't see how it could even be possible to license images under the GPL (though, of course, most of the images that are under the GPL are part of free software, so it doesn't matter if they're being distributed as they're actually supposed to be distributed instead of being used individually).