[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] proposed policy change - allow *certain* CC-licensed images on Wikipedia...

[Peter Jaros]

On Jun 7, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Delirium wrote:

> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>> I fully support that we should accept images under all free licenses,
>> using the aggregation clause of the GNU FDL. (Clause 7.)
>>
> This requires defining a free license, however:
>
> -- Does requiring attribution (like old-style BSD) make the license 
> non-free?  Richard Stallman seems to think so, from what I can gather 
> from gnu.org.

Don't the GFDL and GNU GPL require attribution?

> -- Does permitting only verbatim redistribution make the license 
> non-free?  Many people (including myself) would argue so.

I would say so.

Peter

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