[WikiEN-l] GFDL and images

[Ray Saintonge]

Mark Gallagher wrote:

>>K P schreef:
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>>Which is a pain, yes. As other people have said, the GFDL is not really
>>a convenient license for wikipedia or images, or anything else really.
>>But it is possible to use GFDL'ed content without bending the rules too
>>much.
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>It strikes me that, for those of us who are not Richard Stallman, GFDL 
>is quite poor for any purpose you'd care to name.  But we're stuck with 
>it, I suppose.
>
I don't think that there is anything satisfactory in the licensing 
regimes.  There probably won't be in the absence of testing in the 
courts.  With CC 3.0 being desperate to make allowances for moral 
rights, I can't see any resolution coming soon. 

There are some very good underlying principles to free licensing, but 
trying to reconcile it to an international patchwork intellectual 
property laws leaves everybody tied up in knots.  As a result people 
tend to lose sight of principles.  Wikipedia, to its disadvantage, tends 
to bend over backwards for the sake of being legally compliant; this 
often leaves me wondering when it will have the courage to resist 
anything.  Resistance should never come recklessly, but there are still 
times when it is appropriate.

Ec