The Cunctator wrote:
It is not fear of copyright violation that propels us to shun using unprotected (in the Wikipedia sense) resources, but the principled stand that Wikipedia will be freely usable, undegraded, by all--and that includes not just people who go to wikipedia.org to view entries, but to people who may have some idea about how to reuse or refactor the content, and to the future generations of people who will benefit from this resource.
It is this long view that puts into relief the unnecessary folly of using external images.
Well said!
--Jimbo