I agree 100% with this. Some people on Wikimedia want to enforce copyright much beyond what is reasonable. This is hurt us, and is outside of our mission.
Yann 2011/7/13 Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com>: > > Links by themselves are not copyrightable, and are not unfree. > So your argument, which you keep repeating is not germane to this point. > The point is, the copyright police have taken a fear (of something which has > never occurred in actual law), and made it a point of battle. > > We are arbiters of information content, should not be acting as the police > and judge over what is on YouTube. > We cannot know is something loaded is under copyright or not and should not > be attempting to know. > It's none of our business. > Our business should be merely to decide what is useful for our project. > > The links themselves, I repeat, are free. The point of contention is whether > a link by itself IS a copyright violation. > And on the presumption that it MIGHT be (which is itself ridiculous) our > project suffers immense harm by a handful of ummmm persons. > > All that is beside the point, my point, which is that a link cannot be a > copyright violation, and cannot be licensed. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
