Hoi,
I had a look at the VIDEOS they made available. They are too big for us to upload. They were boring. they are not the encyclopaedic material we are looking for.
Making material available under a free license, does not mean that it automatically qualifies as useful.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/1/15 Sandahl <sandahlb@gmail.com>:
>So what? We just went through lengthy discussions about whether or not
> No offense but , Al Jazeera is a topic many USA people take offense at.
to keep Latuff images and the result was that Commons is not censored.
Just because a certain group of people doesn't like what a certain
file depicts, I don't see why we should not host them. If they are in
scope, they can be uploaded.
2009/1/15 Sandahl <sandahlb@gmail.com>:
>
> No offense but , Al Jazeera is a topic many USA people take offense at.
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Cary Bass <cary@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Eugene Zelenko:
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Just read in http://planet.mozilla.org/:
>> >
>> > Al Jazeera released some materials under Creative Commons 3.0
>> > Attribution license. I think such materials is in scope of
>> > Commons, but require converting to Ogg.
>> >
>> > See http://cc.aljazeera.net/ for details.
>> >
>> > Eugene.
>> >
>> > PS
>> >
>> > Please don't start flame wars about politics. Thank you.
>>
>> WHAT???? What is your problem insinuating we might flame about politics!
>> Are you crazy? ;-)
>>
>> Cary
>>
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