There's been a discussion for the past couple of days on <wikitech-l> about copyright policy on Wikipedia (all languages, but mostly focussing on [[en:]], [[de:]], and [[pl:]] for examples). This grew out of a real technical question («Why doesn't the download tarball include images?»), but it quickly turned into a policy discussion.

Thus, I'll be placing my replies to this thread here shortly, and I encourage anybody interested in this to look at <wikitech-l>: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-May/thread.html#4163 and http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-June/thread.html, or look for the Subject: lines appearing in this post.

-- Toby