On 20/07/07, Ilya Haykinson haykinson@gmail.com wrote:
The mission doesn't say anything about exclusivity. It doesn't say "educational content ONLY under a free license". I see no reason for us not to accept MP3 files and transcode them, providing the OGG and the MP3 and whatever other formats strike our fancy. I see no reason for us to prohibit Flash, when the same video can also be available in Theora or whatever the free codec of the day is relatively popular. Why punish our users in the name of the exclusively-open?
Note by the way that we accepted animated GIFs where useful even while the GIF patents were current, because MNG (the animated version of PNG) was supported by almost no-one by default and was hence all but useless.
- d.