On Jan 20, 2008 12:13 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/01/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The thing that jumps out at me is the unqualified use of "must". This policy would make it impossible to use content for which there are no free formats (not that I can think of any examples of such content at the moment). Is that intentional? A "where possible" could be added to get around it if it's not intentional. (I'm undecided on whether it would be good to completely ban such material or not.)
Are there formats that *cannot* be transcoded into something free?
(e.g. the Library of Congress has some fantastic US public domain scans ... as TIFFs; but these can be made into PNGs losslessly. MPEG2 is unacceptable, transcode to Theora isn't *too* lossy, MS Word can be transformed into ODF [even though Wikimedia only allows OpenOffice 1.x and not ODF as yet], etc.)
Ahem, I changed the topic, the old one was hurting my eyes ;-)
Michael