Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)earthlink.net> writes:
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.
Sure, but they are responsible for actions they are doing. It is okay
to take pictures of public buildings with logo for big companies
attached. Readers are allowed to modify those pictures--but they are
surely not allowed to cut out the logo and use it at will.
The same is valid for copyrighted texts everybody is allowed to
cite--again, this does not mean readers are allowed to rip off the
surrounding sentences and republish the cited texts as a standalone
work.
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.
If "they" create something new, they must check carefully whether they
still comply with the law. IANAL.
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