[WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

[Anthony]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Turvey
<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Can I put the question in another way:
>
> Suppose a media company lawyer came to us and said "we've found this photo
> on Wikimedia that we would like to use - how can we do this and comply with
> the copyright"
>
> What would we say in response?
>
> Is it written down anywhere?
>

"no synopsis can substitute for what the text of the
license<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License>says,
and if in doubt the reuser should seek a proper legal opinion" (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia)

Or, in this particular case, "you're the lawyer, you figure it out".