On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
2014-06-18 0:55 GMT+05:30 Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com:
The people you, Nathan, are accusing of behaving badly, are the ones who are doing the hard, day-do-day work of enforcing the expressed consensus
of
the Wikimedia community, which values a commitment to free licenses.
Sorry, but this is a strawman argument. No, these people are not enforcing any consensus. Actually, they are precisely working against the silent majority in the case of URAA.
I am going to take a pass on following this shift from talking about non-free files as a general topic (which is a very broad topic and a core issue to our movement, and which I feel qualified to talk about) and the URAA issue (which, though significant, is a bit murky to me).
My opinion on URAA is pretty simple: it is a terribly misguided law. One sign of a bad law is that it prompts deeply divisive arguments where they need not exist. Within the Wikimedia world, I recognize that various people are pushing for incompatible outcomes, all in good faith. I have stayed out of that debate so far, and will probably continue to do so.
Pete