[Foundation-l] Fwd: [cc-licenses] The FSF On FDL Derivatives

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed May 9 14:33:22 UTC 2007


On 09/05/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as our own compatiblity goes, right now I feel reasonably
> comfortable stating that:
> 1) The inclusion of by-sa illustrations in non- by-sa texts, fully
> non-free and FDL alike, is forbidden by the most reasonable reading of
> the by-sa but fully endorsed by the Creative Commons. As such, I don't
> feel like we have a problem there.
> 2) We have supported the use of by-sa illustrations in Wikipedia for a
> long time. I can make a reasonable argument that the authors of the
> Wikipedia text have implicitly endorsed this practice of including
> conceptually but not technically compatible works.


So do we have a troll driven sufficiently irrational by hatred of
Wikipedia that we can convince to (a) include such text or photo (b)
sue us over?


- d.



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