On 16 January 2014 15:36, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This proposal asks to move to a "free as in beer" model, where content will >> be free to view, but not necessarily to reuse (and with the opaque license, >> it may not even be possible to tell). We could choose to make that change, >> but it is a major change to the founding principles of what we do. As such >> it should be discussed directly and across all projects as such a major >> change, and not backdoored through a vote that is on its surface a question >> about format support. > As much as I hate how MPEG-LA and MPEG-4 creates a non-free climate for our > video, it's unfair to use "backdoor" to characterize intent of either > community members or WMF employees in this area. I think it's quite fair to note, loudly and often, that *functionally* it creates a backdoor for nonfree content. This is a major, major change, being posited as allowing a format. Furthermore, this has been discussed before, and the proponents *are fully aware* that it is a major, major change that they are positing as allowing a format. So claiming that it's "assuming bad faith" to notice this and say so comes across as disingenuous. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>