On 2 February 2011 19:04, bawolff bawolff+wn@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]]