Am Mon, 2003-06-02 um 01.09 schrieb Marco Krohn:
I see it the same way as you do, but Erik claims (at least for images) that these are different pages with a different license that are added together by the server and by that we don't violate the GFDL. So he basically says that he found a loophole in the GFDL which allows mixing free / non-free content.
Like 99% of the people here, I am not lawyer, but here is my opinion - how I interpret GFDL, how I think the spirit of GFDL is:
IMHO articles should be seen as one work, and therefore it is 100% GFDL, or it violates the GFDL.
Personally, I would not like to see "my" work being combined with non-free content.
Another thing: Until now, I did not notice that the English Wikipedia says "This text is available ...", while the German Wikipedia says "Diese Seite..." ("This page ...") "... is available under the terms of the GNU FDL".
I also do think that this discussion belongs to another mailing list, wikipedia-l, and therefore cross-posted this message (sorry if I offend someone by this, but I think it is not fair to the Wikipedia users that general, important issues are discussed in a place where the subject is normally just software development ...)
Best regards, Zeno Gantner