On 7/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
In the absence of some willingness to confront these
issues, we keep
issuing our own judgements against ourselves. This can only lead to
being bogged down in a legal web of our own making. We don't need to
defend every last claim of copyvio that comes along, but showing a litle
courage would be nice.
Courage?
Courage is when we step up and delete material which is not free
content, material which is questionably legal. Courage is trusting
our contributors to create content which is clearly and confidently
free. Courage is knowing that a loss of content will not be permanent
because we can create our own and that we are not so unskilled that we
must better our project by taking from others.
Should we ever do as proposed and try to hide behind legal loopholes
and legislated mandated snipe hunts in order to continue to distribute
content which our contributors did not create, content which violates
our goal of Free content... than I would call that cowardice indeed.