On 19 Sep 2006, at 15:43, dmehkeri@swi.com wrote:
Who are you to say that we won't edit the video? Maybe you won't, but maybe someone else will, in a way that makes it more useful, and then link that on Wikipedia. That's the point of viral licensing and ShareAlikes. I'm afraid "you're not allowed to edit it" is a deal- breaker.
Eh, why is that anyway? I understand why we would dislike it, of course, but I'm not sure why, exactly, we would want to make it a deal-breaker. (We, english Wikipedia, rather than say, Wikimedia Commons which has slightly different goals.)
The idea is to encourage people to make more free content. Some people (such as me) will do this for some of their content. This free content will accumulate over time.
I'm not sure this is so useful to content which cannot be made free, though Kim Bruning was keen not to have to check every piece of content in Wikipedia before it could be re-used by only allowing free content.
At least, we could use some better documentation on this point.
I agree with this. Gregory Maxwell is almost single handedly championing this idea which, on reflection, is not so odd as it looks. It's all about long term results rather than short term expediency.