[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?

[Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Nicolas Weeger wrote:

> > They are easy to replace with nothing though. I think it's worth it.
>
> What about for instance book covers?
> They are definitely not something you can usually have under a free licence. But
> fair use probably applies (since the cover isn't the book itself).
>
> Sure we could just not put'em. But sometimes they make the article on said book
> nicer, and may illustrate, in case of comics, stuff like that, what it looks
> like. Which is definitely something adding value to the article, imo.

Certainly. But my point is that Wikipedia isn't about adding value to articles
at any expense.

And I think the expense is too great here.

-- Daniel