[FM discuss] wikipedia images

[Julian Oliver]

..on or around Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:28:24PM +0200, adam hyde said:
> hey
> 
> sorry for the slow response, been at the beach
> 
> if we use images from wikipedia we have to use the gdfl which aint
> really possible as the gfdl is incompatible with the gpl.
> 
> I asked Florence Devouard (chair of wikipedia) what the story is about
> this, and if we can take stuff, and her response was 'wikipedia doesn't
> police its license'
> 
> so, i don't know where that puts us...personally i would rather all
> stuff on floss was absolutely free, as per gpl then its good to go for
> anything for all time...if that means making news images, its more time
> now, but makes for a better tomorrow ;)
> 
> anyone else have any thoughts on this?
>

"wikipedia doesn't police its license" hmm.. i don't know if that's safe
to lean on. i'd play safe in this matter and probably go through the
motions of making all the images yourself if they can't be aquired in a
GPL compatible way. it can be tedious for sure. 

if you need a hand i might be able to help tomorrow arvo or first thing
this week..

julian
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> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 18:45 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote:
> > Answering my own post:
> > 
> > Apparently, we would also have to use the GFDL license:
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Reusers.27_rights_and_obligations
> > 
> > Adam, any thoughts on this? My current dilemma is whether to borrow the 
> > illustration of waveshapes from Wikipedia, or get someone (you, Sara...) 
> > to make a new version.
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveform
> > 
> > It would sure help to be able to get images from Wikipedia and use them 
> > when needed, not just for myself but for future contributors.
> > 
> > best,
> > d.
> > 
> > Derek Holzer wrote:
> > > If I want to use a Wikipedia image in my tutorial (all Wikipedia is GNU 
> > > Free Documentation License), how should I attribute it? Or is it 
> > > incompatible with the license we use?
> > > 
> > > d.
> > 
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