[WikiEN-l] CC-BY-SA suitable for Wikipedia?

Chris Picone ccool2ax at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 14:11:09 UTC 2006


Ok, so if I print out a set of articles, I just add to each image (or
in the back somewhere) that Image X is licensed under the CC-BY-SA
license, right? got it.

On 10/24/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Chris Picone <ccool2ax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, if I'm printing Wikipedia, I have to print it under the GFDL,
> > right? So I can't use the image. Besides, couldn't some crazy lawyer
> > in the future consider the article used by an image "derivative work"?
>
> There is no problem in printing a page with bout CC-BY-SA and GFDL on
> it. Aslong as you follow both licenses when you redistibute it. The
> images and text just have different licenses, that's all. If you
> follow them, you'll be fine.
>
> And no, when you include a picture of an image in an article, you are
> not making a derivative work of it. You are redistributing it. That's
> it.
>
> --Oskar
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