[WikiEN-l] GFDL and images

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 10:32:43 UTC 2007


On 6/11/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Do you have a real-life example where it is impossible for you to
> comply with the license?

Useing GFDL images in videos.

> Licensing images under GFDL was a neccessity in the beginning, as it
> was the only copyleft license for non-software documents available at
> the time.

FAL
Nupedia licence
Open Publication License

>I think its use as the only image license will decline.
> Personally, I dual-license all my files on commons GFDL and
> CC-BY-SA-2.5, to give the user the maximum of choices.

I think it depends on how the GSFDL works out.

-- 
geni



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