Typically the Foundation has been very reluctant serve any content that
is not under their control. There are two primary reasons for this:
* Security/privacy - This is mainly an issue for remote Javascript, but
also for images. Images can set cookies via their headers and thus be
used for user tracking.
* Stability - If a 3rd party service goes down, we have no control over
getting it fixed in a timely manner. This is one of the reason we don't
use ReCaptcha for our login captcha.
Ryan Kaldari
On 12/16/11 1:57 PM, Strainu wrote:
Hi,
Has the foundation ever expressed an opinion on using external free
image repositories in WMF projects? The licensing policy only says
that the content should be free, but without the specific limitations
that are present on Commons. I was wondering if it would be acceptable
for a project to serve (without hosting) content that is PD in another
country (presumably the country with the project's language as an
official language) but not in the US.
And if it would be, how could we ensure that the project would indeed
be for free images only?
Thanks,
Strainu
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