On Monday 02 June 2003 02:33, Toby Bartels wrote:
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thanks.
This isn't entirely true; the more paranoid must still check the less paranoid. But Wikipedia needs to make it easy by separating out the "fair use" pics and not claiming any longer that they are being distributed under the GFDL.
or we stay GFDL (as the FAQ says) and link the "fair use" pics which contradict the spirit of the GFDL externally. I would love to see the core of Wikipedia staying free in the sense that you can say to everyone, take the whole article (text+pics) and do with it whatever you want.
As for brief quotations, well, I knew that the GNU licences would come back to bite us someday, but I expected 50 years from now (hopefully *after* current copyright law became impossible to maintain). I never thought they would prove to be inadequate so soon! Surely RMS thought of brief quotations, one hopes?
The problem is that the GFDL main purpose was for technical documentation. This license was never invented for an encyclopedia-like project.
Perhaps we can use the "invariant section" from the GFDL in order to ensure that quotations are not modified. IMHO this would be sufficent to make quotes compatible with GFDL.
best regards, Marco