[Foundation-l] Two questions about the licensing update of media files

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
It is exactly this why new GFDL images are imho inappropriate. Again,
Commons functions as a repository for all our projects and consequently it
is not really acceptable when it can not function as such for its material.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/8/5 Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec at gmail.com>

> 2009/8/4 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> > GFDL licensed images are still perfectly usable in freely licensed
> > reference works, in spite of the  inconveniences in the license.
>
> I am not sure what you mean, exactly. Do you consider GFDL to be
> “strong copyleft”, i.e. that the viral clause applies to the text
> surrounding a GFDL image? In that case, I don’t see where the “freely
> licensed reference works” come from (GFDL does not talk about “freely
> licensed”, only “under precisely this License”), and in that case,
> CC-BY-SA-only Wikipedia articles would not be allowed to use GFDL-only
> images. (In a similar way, GFDL-only Wikipedia articles of a recent
> past would probably not have been allowed to use CC-only licensed
> images.)
>
> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
>
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