Brion Vibber wrote in part:
As a reminder, none of us are real lawyers, and nothing in this discussion is going to get anyone anywhere. May I suggest we all agree to disagree and keep our options open until such time as the project receives professional advice?
But there does seem to be an emerging consensus for separating the free pictures from the fair ones, with checkboxes on upload and so forth. So we could well get something out of this.
But you're right, of course, that WANL.
Toby Bartels wrote:
Our copyright notice at the bottom of the page even refers only to "text"; a result of this feature is that the text is easily separated.
As we've heard before, saying something in a copyright statement doesn't make it true.
Er ... yes, but my point here is that it's *not* saying something. It's not saying that the image is avaialble under the GFDL, hence it's not lying about the images (not that bit, at least).
-- Toby