[WikiEN-l] GFDL and images

[geni]

On 6/11/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would someone please explain to me (I've asked before, so I'm pretty
> sure no one can/will, and it won't matter) how the GNU Free
> Documentation License can possibly apply to images?  It seems that, by
> the words of the license, you have to modify the image itself to
> conform to the license, because none of the images have the copyright
> attached to them.  Then, once you've attacked the copyright notice,
> why the hell would you want to use the image, other than to
> demonstrate how it can't possibly be applied to images, in which case
> images uploaded under GNUFDLBLAHBLAHBLAH are completely worthless,
> because no one else can ever use them except under limited and
> crippling conditions.
>

Condtions are not too crippling online and offline well. Collect
enough together and you have a decent amount of radition shielding.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSFDL

for an attempt to fix this.

-- 
geni