Lars Aronsson wrote:
Can someone explain why the Wikimedia Commons accepts
uploads of
printable PDF documents (e.g. brochures) but not the editable
source version in Open Document Format (e.g. .ODT). This seems to
violate the open source principle.
This should be an FAQ but, but it isn't obvious from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types
As ODT are ZIP files, it's hard to allow one kind of Zip based format
while rejecting the others.
It's not just to avoid people sharing all kind of files uploading them
in zip, jar files (also zip-based) are a security risk. (and you could
have a file being both OpenDocument and Jar!)
If you come up with a solution, we'll be happy to hear about it.