[WikiEN-l] JSTOR and free external links

RLS evendell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 09:29:42 UTC 2007


On 9/11/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our "free" is libre, not gratis (though of course Wikipedia itself is
> also available free of charge). That does not mean, however, that all
> the content we link to or reference must be either gratis or libre.

You're the second person to point this out in this thread, but as a
point of order, I feel compelled to point out that free-libre almost
certainly requires free-gratis as well.  The fact that JSTOR is a paid
resource subsequently means that it's not a free-libre resource.

--Darkwind



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