On 19/01/2008, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Resolution:File format policy Whereas an essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that may be created, used, and reused by a diverse community, without restriction, and because we believe that this mission requires thriving open formats and open standards on the web to allow the creation of content not subject to restrictions on creation, use, and reuse, it is resolved that all material, text , multimedia, or software, on Wikimedia Foundation projects must be in a format that is:
- Viewable or playable by existing free software tools
- Able to be created or edited by existing free software tools.
- Defined by an open standard, implementation, or specification not
under proprietary control 4. Not itself subject to material patent-related restrictions on use that are incompatible with free software, nor only able to be authored or viewed by software so restricted. 5. Not encrypted or otherwise subject to technical protection measures incompatible with the permissions of free content licensing. where "free software" is software under any licensing terms that meet the Free Software Definition. Where an independently-used subset of the format meets these criteria, even if some files in that format do not (as with PDF and encrypted PDF), files in that subset qualify as acceptable formats under the text of this resolution.
FWIW: I also forwarded this to the FSFE discussion list, noting that it was a draft and asking them to check it for loopholes - the FSF is good at spotting loopholes.
- d.