[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 11:35:14 UTC 2007


> >All images have to be released under the GFDL, or something
> > compatible with it (ie. lets you do everything the GFDL lets you do,
> > and more - hardly comparable to some parts of a site being under a NC
> > license, and the rest under GFDL). (NB: Fair use is not a license.)
> >
>
> False the GFDL lets you release derivative images under the GFDL. Free
> art, CC-by-SA, CeCILL, GPL, and LGPL ( I really don't understand how
> images count as source code but that isn't my problem) wont let you
> release derivatives under the GFDL

I don't follow you. Derivatives of what? If the original image is
released under GFDL, then you can (and I think must, in most
circumstances) release the derivative under GFDL, but multiple
licenses doesn't come into it, so it's an irrelevant point...



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