"Michael Snow" wikipedia@earthlink.net schrieb:
I know that we carefully say that "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License", without saying anything about the images.
I also see another reason why I want to get rid of this: I see several copiers who copy Wikipedia articles, keep them under GNU/FDL, but copyright their layout. Whether this goes against the GNU/FDL or not, it certainly goes against the _spirit_ of the GNU/FDL. I would like to speak up against it, but currently I feel we are very weak there, because we do something very similar ourselves. I would want to change this text to "This article is available..."
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.
The very least we should do is to flag those images that are not under the GNU/FDL, not only on the image page, but also on the using page.
Andre Engels
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I know that we carefully say that "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License", without saying anything about the images.
I also see another reason why I want to get rid of this: I see several copiers who copy Wikipedia articles, keep them under GNU/FDL, but copyright their layout. Whether this goes against the GNU/FDL or not, it certainly goes against the _spirit_ of the GNU/FDL. I would like to speak up against it, but currently I feel we are very weak there, because we do something very similar ourselves. I would want to change this text to "This article is available..."
Why not put some automagicality in it? I'm not sure if this is feasible, but a combination of Fair use / GFDL / Other radio buttons for submitting images (flag saved with the image in the db) and a simple copyright notice algorithm:
Plain text article: "Text is available ..."
Text with GFDL image: "Article is available ..."
Text with Non-GFDL-image or both: "Text is available ..."
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