On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:29:04PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
So unfortunately you can't get PD screenshots of MediaWiki. The best you can do is GPL screenshots, but only if you show only GPL content in it and either cut out the browser interface or use a GPL browser.
Someone vastly misunderstands the nature of copyright law, I think.
(Though, admittedly, IANAL, either. I just play on on the net.)
If I create a screenshot of a browser page on my computer displaying wikipedia, there is *one* copyright involved: *mine*. The image is not a derivative work of the browser, the OS, or the website. Therefore, none of those people's copyrights apply, and therefore by induction, no licenses are necessary. I created an image, and I own its copyright.
And, to be clear about the point at hand: I the creator of that image can then license it's copyright under anything I feel like.
Cheers, -- jra