From: "Anthere" anthere6@yahoo.com
Pb is that the user will not necessarily look at the source, so will miss the info
I think any user who is a downstream licencee will be lookiing for any due dilligence that they can rely upon or verify independently. This is important as we cannot forsee all future fair use scenarios. A downstream licensee will have to check this out, already WP states that all text is released under the GFDL. Someone can verify the edits and the collaborative authoring process for the text by looking into the page histories and analyzing all the contributions on a page (yes this is why IMO the IBM/MIT research project can be important to the future of the GFDL) and they will be able to make a decision about the authorship of texts. For images it will be more a question of public domain or trying to understand the relationship between their use of the GFDL materials vs. the Wikipedia use and see if their use is also a "fair use". If not, they either delete the image, or they ask permission (something that even we can do). If they are going to make money using GFDL materials I do not see any contradiction with that and our use of fair use materials here on Wikipedia. If it is a photo, for a biography, well, then can hire an artist to make a sketch of the person depicted if they cannot get permission. At least they have an image to work from. For people who might want to create their own native encyclopedia, their use is probably fair use as well. Why worry so much about that? There is no reason to get hysterical about it here. Wikipedias are non-commercial (different from non-profit) and educational. The amount of material that the photo represents is relatively minor and with the small size of the thumbnails used, how can anyone suggest that the image is anything more than providing some basic information, i.e. what a person looks like or what a whale looks like. No one is going to sue Wikipedia for that (and even then there is the DCMA OCILLA sec. 512 procedure anyone can follow).
Alex756