Andre Engels wrote:
Having said that, I think requiring that the image must be usable for anyone might be overdoing it. I would say, the article including the image should be usable for anyone. That is, having the image with a text equal to or derived from the Wikipedia text should be ok, just taking the image alone out need not be.
Sorry, but if we start conceding that in effect, we are combining an article with an image into a single document under GFDL, downstream users have to be able to use the image alone. We are licensing them to modify the document, and potential modification includes stripping out all the text and just leaving the image. We cannot restrict downstream modification--that's essential to copyleft.
--Michael Snow