GFDL and quotes & images - a suggestion

"Tomos at Wikipedia" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If there is any uncertainty regarding if having a fair use quotes is in 
conflict with GFDL for us, or for others, one safe way, it seems, is to 
declare something like the following:

All Wikipedia contents are available under the terms of the GNU Free 
Documentation License. This includes all the texts and images except for the 
following.

- Images hosted in other servers than wikipedia's own. They may appear as if 
part of Wikipedia contents, but they are not. Therefore, you should contact 
the owner of the image regarding its copyright status.
- Images, texts, and other contents hosted in Wikipedia server(s) under fair 
use or similar justifications. They are not part of Wikipedia's contents 
that are released under GFDL. Your use of these materials based on the terms 
of GFDL could result in copyright violation.

I think this kind of message could be placed on Wikipedia:Copyright , at the 
bottom of each page, and the download page for Wikipedia's database dumps.

Any opinions?

Regards,

Tomos

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