[Wikipedia-l] Copyright of pictures and restrictions on the usage

Andre Engels andrewiki at freemail.nl
Tue Aug 10 14:39:56 UTC 2004


On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:13:43 +0200
  "Gerard.Meijssen" <gerardm at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>Hoi,
>Can pictures that are given to be used within Wikipedia and outside 
>Wikipedia only in combination of the Wikipedia articles, be used. The 
>things that come to mind are business logo's and material that the giver 
>wants to restrict in order for it to remain within a resticted band of use.
>
>In my opinion this is a valid restriction that does allow for our own use 
>and allows for the distribution of material to copied versions of 
>wikipedia's. 
>
>Any reason why this can not to be done in this way ?

I think it would go against the GNU/FDL, by making derivative works 
impossible.

Andre Engels



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