[Foundation-l] [Slashdot] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad

[Sage Ross]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Ray Saintonge<saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> ...a properly viral licence will constrain the commercial
> publisher with the requirement that any use by him will also render his
> new context for that photograph just as available for free use as the
> photograph itself.
>

But our nominally viral licenses don't do that.  We've come to accept
that using CC-SA images as illustrations does not extend copyleft
requirements to the accompanying text.

-Sage Ross (User:Ragesoss)