[Wikipedia-l] Re: What would Richard Stallman say?
Michael Snow
wikipedia at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 21 04:51:11 UTC 2004
Andre Engels wrote:
>Having said that, I think requiring that the image must be usable for
>anyone might be overdoing it. I would say, the article including the image
>should be usable for anyone. That is, having the image with a text equal
>to or derived from the Wikipedia text should be ok, just taking the image
>alone out need not be.
>
Sorry, but if we start conceding that in effect, we are combining an
article with an image into a single document under GFDL, downstream
users have to be able to use the image alone. We are licensing them to
modify the document, and potential modification includes stripping out
all the text and just leaving the image. We cannot restrict downstream
modification--that's essential to copyleft.
--Michael Snow
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