(Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com):
--- Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com wrote:
I'll echo the "I don't know"s, and add a complication: pictures and text are a bit different. Almost all the text in Wikipedia was made collaboratively, and is therefore unquestionably FDL. But many of the pictures are either public domain or used under "fair use", so using them in another work would have no affect at all on that work.
I'll second the "I don't know" and add that images should be treated carefully, becaue when someone gets images from someone else, while that someone else might grant use of the image to W, that same someone else may not grant the use of the image for any other derivative work that is not part of W. Thus, the someone else needs to be asked essentially whether their image is going in the public domain, or in the FDL, or for W use only.
If you find such an image on wikipedia (i.e., one for which permission was granted only to wikipedia), it should probably be replaced if at all possible by a more freely usable one, either PD, or FDL licensed itself, or usable under "fair use".