Gareth Owen wrote:
Are we to scour the world for the most strict censorship laws in order to comply with those as well?
I find this entire discussion about copyright laws and censorship to be puzzling, perhaps because I think I have a valid principle by which to decide such things.
We ought to obey the laws of as many countries as possible, consistent with our goal of creating a freely distributable *and* NPOV encyclopedia.
If the laws of China would ask to do something biased in order to distribute there, we would refuse. Our neutrality is something that we cannot compromise on.
But the decision to be rigorously GNU-free does not generally get in the way of neutrality. Restrictive copyright laws that don't let us have "fair use" don't mean that we can't be neutral. They just mean that we have to do some extra work to remain free.
--Jimbo