--- Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
Lars, if you don't care about Jimmy's
legal risk
and
No, Stephen, that conclusion would be wrong. I do
care about Jimmy's
risk.
That's not necessarily my conclusion; it's simply an
"if you don't..." statement. I'm glad you you're not
indifferent to Jimmy's situation.
But I am also capable of separating it from
the project's risk.
As a contributor, my primary concern is with the
project and the pages
that I have edited. Rather than starting to police
other users in order
to protect Jimmy, I'm asking Jimmy what he feels I
can do to help him.
The background was this: I had earlier claimed that
the fear of copyright
violation was exaggerated and that really only Jimmy
and Bomis were at
risk. Someone else then claimed that the entire
project was at risk, and
now I tried to demonstrate that this was in fact not
the case.
I did post a reason how a lack of vigilance could put
the project's credibility at risk. Of course, that
doesn't mean the entire project would come crashing
down, but it is enough to make me adopt the "better
safe than sorry" approach.
-- Stephen Gilbert
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