Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
I don't know who put the last 2 categories there, but it has been obviously done without general consensus and IT BREAKS THE F***ING LAW - if you're putting such image on GFDL-ed article you're breaking copyright of authors of the article - they didn't give you permisions to distribute non-GFDL derivates of their work.
I don't think it's at all clear that including "fair use" content in a GFDL article has any material impact on GFDL compliance.
I have yet to see anyone who wants to take that argument to the logical conclusion, i.e. that no GFDL article can quote even one sentence from any copyrighted source. May an article on Tom Clancy quote a line from one of his books? May an article on Star Wars discuss the line "Use the force, Luke?"
Such quoting is normally done under the "fair use" convention.
We also have to make it legal to distribute Wikipedia in Europe, which have different copyright laws, especially when it comes to what in USA is called "fair use", and what is usually described explicitely by copyright laws.
I do support making it easy for people in most countries to be able to redistribute Wikipedia, but of course it is not possible nor desirable to attempt to comply with *every* law of *every* country.
--Jimbo