On 5/9/07, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
2007/5/9, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org:
What's more, it also means that it is not allowed to put CC-BY-SA images in Wikipedia, so they will have to go too.
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-05-08-fdl-scope does *not* actually say that, nor does it say anything which implies that. It says, essentially, that you can't use a GFDLed image in a non GFDLed article, but it doesn't say that you can't use a non-GFDLed image in a GFDLed article. Allegedly (according to Jimbo a few years ago) Stallman had explicitly stated that it is *OK* to use a "fair use" image in a GFDLed text, and if a non-free image is OK, surely a CC-BY-SA one is.
Derivative work is derivative work, no matter under what license. If an article with a GFDL image is a derivative of that image, then an article with a CC-BY-SA image is a derivative of that image too.
Of course an article containing an image is a derivative of both the article and the image. I don't question that, and frankly I don't think there's any question at all about it. The question is whether or not it is permissible under the GFDL to prepare and distribute these derivatives.
Anthony