[Wikipedia-l] question about fdl

Wed Mar 5 01:32:53 UTC 2003

> (Christopher Mahan <chris_mahan at yahoo.com>):
> 
> --- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'll echo the "I don't know"s, and add a complication: pictures and
> > text are a bit different.  Almost all the text in Wikipedia was
> > made
> > collaboratively, and is therefore unquestionably FDL.  But many of
> > the
> > pictures are either public domain or used under "fair use", so
> > using
> > them in another work would have no affect at all on that work.
> 
> I'll second the "I don't know" and add that images should be treated
> carefully, becaue when someone gets images from someone else, while
> that someone else might grant use of the image to W, that same
> someone else may not grant the use of the image for any other
> derivative work that is not part of W. Thus, the someone else needs
> to be asked essentially whether their image is going in the public
> domain, or in the FDL, or for W use only.

If you find such an image on wikipedia (i.e., one for which permission
was granted only to wikipedia), it should probably be replaced if at
all possible by a more freely usable one, either PD, or FDL licensed
itself, or usable under "fair use".

-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC