On 5/1/06, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
I have a problem with Wikimedia adopting this proposal as Wikisource certainly has a place for documents availble under licences forbidding modification. I do not have specific examples in mind, but we already have policy of protecting all works from modification once they have been proofread to a certain degree.
These are completely separate statements. Protecting a page from editing is entirely different from using legal powers to stop others from distributing a modified version of that page. Page protection is a policy matter, forbidding derivatives is a matter of law. I feel that documents which cannot legally be distributed in altered form have no place on Wikisource. But that is exactly the discussion we need to have, especially on the Board level.
Erik