On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2014-06-18 0:55 GMT+05:30 Pete Forsyth
<peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>om>:
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