Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
One worrying thing that i noticed is that in some of these projects there is no strict adherence to GFDL-only text. Since my first day in Wikipedia i understood how important the GFDL is. I understood that articles cannot be copied verbatim even from sources whose copyright terms allow copying for non-commercial usage, because the "free" in "The Free Encyclopedia" does not refer only to price.
Well, there is even more of that than you describe.
There are projects that are either unable or unvilling to enforce proper licencing of images. (Read: many/most images are without any copyright templates.)
There are projects that, due to misunderstanding or carelessness, use material (text and images) that are PD in life+50 jurisdictions and not in the US.
There are projects that, despite dedicating significant attention to copyright issues, have significant amount of material copied from print sources, and thus practically undetectable.
This may come as a surprise to Westerners, but most people out there are not really aware of copyright. Intelligent, educated adults may have no knowledge or understanding of it, and rise a protest when you tell them they can't copy text from somewhere.