On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro@gmail.com
wrote:
Anthony wrote:
What is it specifically that you want to know? The discussions on this mailing list were largely for the benefit of those involved in the discussion, not for others to get a summary afterward. Furthermore,
they
were censored to the point where they weren't able to get to the heart
of
the matter, which is a fundamental difference on the moral issues surrounding copyright law, attribution, integrity rights, etc.
I am somewhat curious as to the allegation of censorship on this list. Do forward old e-mails by you that were blocked, to me personally, if you retain any.
I was not put on moderation, I was warned. Call it censorship via chilling effects, if you'd like. See below:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Re-licensing To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Please Stop It.
This thread used to be on the "Re-licensing" issue, which is an issue many people are interested it. Thus, you can't even bring up the usual "Well, it's off-topic, but everyone can filter it out of their inbox by a subject-filter" counter-argument, because many people actually *do* care about the Re-licensing and do not intend at all to filter it out of their inbox. What has happened, though, is that the thread has first been hijacked by a discussion about "moral rights" and other legal and philosophical concepts (which I myself found at least interesting, if completely off-topic) and now, it has gone down to a rather pathetic "I have studied philosophy, you have no clue." "I don't need to have studied philosophy to have a clue." "I have studied Mathematics and you are a bad philosopher" type of chat, which is an absolute no-go.
Really, take it offlist. I hope I don't need to enforce this plea because I'm not actually in the mood to do so.
Michael
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com