[Wikipedia-l] please support offsite imags

[Hunter Peress]

Over these last few months, it has been frustrating when GFDL righteous wikipedians nix each
others images because of fear of copyright violation. This respect for the GFDL which is extremely
vigorous, but I feel it is also very harmful to wikipedia.

To alleviate some of this, we should allow the inclusion of offsite images. This is perfectley
acceptable. Take http://news.google.com for example, which is greatly improved by the addition of
any image seen fit, also note that not a single image there is hosted on google. I emailed them,
and they  said that what they do eg:  <img src="http://anotherserver/file.jpg"/>  is completely
within the realm of copyright policy.

There would be no violation of GFDL here. As some people already suggested. And the jumbo about it
being bad netiquette is a weak argument against all thats just been laid out.

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