[Wikipedia-l] Stallman on fair use

[Jimmy Wales]

Lee Pilich wrote:
> Can somebody please explain to me why we, the editors of Wikipedia,
> should be bothered about any context other than Wikipedia? I want to
> make the WIkipedia as good as it can be, and if that involves using
> fair use materials, then so be it. If somebody who makes a
> derivitive work from the Wikipedia can't use our fair use materials
> as fair use because, say, they're charging $50 for whatever product
> they've created, then I couldn't care less.

Because we care about freedom in the sense of GNU, that's why.

--Jimbo