On 2 February 2011 19:04, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Note that
another slight disadvantage of the current state of affairs
is that sites using InstantCommons (e.g. the OpenStreetMap wiki) are
currently able to use CopyrightByWikimedia images (well, more than
just ?able to use?, they can do that inadvertently; they cannot simply
distinguish the non-free files from the free rest).
Whats being proposed here doesn't directly fix that, since if you
setup multiple foreign repositories (at least how the code currently
work), other people using you as a forign repository can get to
foreign files through you. However, it'd probably make the coding
required to exclude such files significantly easier.
Of course you will always _be able to_ get to the files (if only
through screen-scraping or whatever). The point is that currently, the
moment you enable InstantCommons, you get non-free files together with
the free ones whether you want them or not. If we move non-free files
away from Commons, the InstantCommons configuration should keep using
only
commons.wikimedia.org as a repository, which would solve the
problem.
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]