[Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Tisza Gergő
I found a few apparent legal problems while translating the license update documents. Apologies if these have already been discussed to death - I didn't follow earlier debates, and the archives are mostly useless as a knowledge base. == revision not specified == The TOS says that reusers have to

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Brian
> the archives are mostly useless as a knowledge base. This is false and you know it. Several of these questions *have* been debated here and with a few simple searches you could be well on your way to reading the discussions. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Tisza Gergő wrote: > I found a few

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Dan Rosenthal
A pet peeve of mine; I don't think telling anyone what THEY know or don't know over the internet is worthwhile in most cases. -Dan On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Brian wrote: >> the archives are mostly useless as a knowledge base. > > This is false and you know it. Several of these questions *hav

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Brian
The only way to conclude that the archives are a worthless knowledge base would be to attempt several search queries over them and find no relevant results. Since results would have been found had reasonable searches been attempted we know that the complaint is likely to be fake. On Tue, Apr 14, 2

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Brian wrote: > From: Brian > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:13 PM > > the archives are mostly useless > as a knowledge base. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: > > > > --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Brian wrote: > >> From: Brian >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" >> Date: Tuesday, Apri

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Brian
You guys are in the stone age ^_^ In gmail: list:foundation-l keyword On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Chad wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Birgitte SB > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Brian wrote: > > > >> From: Brian &

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread geni
2009/4/14 Brian : > You guys are in the stone age ^_^ > > In gmail: > > list:foundation-l keyword > Or onwiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers/Oppositional_arguments -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list founda

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Chad
;> > >> > >> > --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Brian wrote: >> > >> >> From: Brian >> >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS >> >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" < >> foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Brian wrote: >> You guys are in the stone age ^_^ >> >> In gmail: >> >> list:foundation-l keyword >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Chad wrote: >> >>> Seconded. FWIW, the archives are a completely us

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi all, Could we please summarize the outcome of the long discussions on this subject instead of discussing different external search services to the mailing list? (No doubt one can learn a lot about the different external possibilities not offered via the list.wikimedia.org site, yet I would like

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-15 Thread Brian
http://www.google.com/search?q=foundation-l+summary On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Hi all, > Could we please summarize the outcome of the long discussions on this > subject instead of discussing different external search services to the > mailing list? (No doubt one can

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-15 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Hi all, > Could we please summarize the outcome of the long discussions on this > subject instead of discussing different external search services to the > mailing list? What is it specifically that you want to know? The discussions on th

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> Could we please summarize the outcome of the long discussions on this >>> subject instead of discussing different external search services to the >>> mailing list? >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-16 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: >> Hi all, >> Could we please summarize the outcome of the long discussions on this >> subject instead of discussing different external search services to the >> mailing list? > > What is it sp

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-16 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > > Anthony wrote: > >> What is it specifically that you want to know? The discussions on this > >> mailing list were largely for the benefit of those involved in the > >> discussion, not for others to get a summary afterward. Furthe

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-16 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > > Anthony wrote: > >> Are you strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual property"? Vote > for > >> the change. > >> > I don't see how this is warranted. As it stands the TOS proposed > is certainl

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-16 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> > Anthony wrote: >> > >> Do you believe that the right to attribution is a fundamental natural >> right >> >> which is hel

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen >> wrote: >> > > >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> >>> Anthony wrote: >>> Are you strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual property"? Vote >> for >> the change.

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-17 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't consider Moeller the main proponent of the current > proposal in any meaningful way; except in the very narrow > sense that Moeller is admirably acting to employ "the art > of the possible", and theref

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-17 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Anthony wrote: > > In any case, this proposal certainly *will* undermine the > individual right > to attribution held by individual contributors, so anyone > who supports that > right *should* vote against the proposal or refuse to vote > at all.  If you > want to nitpic

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I don't consider Moeller the main proponent of the current >> proposal in any meaningful way; except in the very narrow >> sense that Moeller is admirably acting to employ "the art >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I don't think the word "indisputably" means what you think it does. >> >> Even if I agree on a very broad level that the phrasing is mildly >> confusing to our re-users, and certain

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-18 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Anthony wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > > cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> I don't consider Moeller the main proponent of the current > >> proposal in any meaningful way; except in the

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-18 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > What is changed are precisely the things that RMS himself has > said are provisions of the GFDL that are a poor fit for us. That > is the issue, plain and simple. I think it's enough to say that it changes things that some of the c

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-19 Thread geni
2009/4/17 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice > > I don't consider Moeller the main proponent of the current > proposal in any meaningful way; except in the very narrow > sense that Moeller is admirably acting to employ "the art > of the possible", and therefore