[Foundation-l] wiki search & wikimedia foundation collaboration with Limewire and Yacy ?

[James Hare]

Wikiasari will be a service of Wikia, not Wikimedia.

On 12/30/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> If there is one thing that is relevant, then it is that Peer to Peer
> technology can be used for more than just copying material from one
> computer to another. The faulty argument used by the proprietary content
> industry is that because of sharing in a peer to peer network you must
> be a criminal. This is utter rubbish. Consequently this is exactly one
> of the projects were Open Source and Open Content projects need to work
> together because it will show that a complete technology is unjustly
> stigmatised.
>
> When this technology is used in a way that is in line with the way the
> WMF treats copyright, we will be able to create an infrastructure where
> both organisations and communities will work together. I do applaud it
> when it can be a true cooperation, a cooperation where everybody
> collaborates for their own reasons and create something that everybody
> will be happy with.
>
> Thanks,
>    GerardM
>
> Oldak Quill schreef:
> > On 30/12/06, thomasasta at gmx.net <thomasasta at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Jim, hello Sam,
> >>
> >> you search for coders to get wiki-search out.
> >> There are already a lot of coders in the list
> >> http://search.wikia.com/wiki/search:Developers
> >>
> >> What do you think about a collaboration with limewire ?
> >>
> >> http://www.limewire.org/forum/showthread.php?p=3090&posted=1#post3090
> >>
> >> Integrate yacy in limewire and built up a colaboration with yacy,
> limewire and messenger cspace (ported to java) for wikia and wikimedia
> foundation.
> >>
> >> Both are java.
> >> Kind regards tom.
> >>
> >
> > Preliminary: All respects to Limewire and the hard work that's been
> > put into the development of the software. Also, I'm not making
> > judgement on what the technologies behind Limewire enable end-users to
> > do (FWIW, I am certainly *not* siding with the RIAA!).
> >
> > Someone on these mailing lists a couple of days ago wrote that
> > Wikimedia was the only Web 2.0 venture that really took copyright
> > seriously. Being the leading project in the free-content movement,
> > taking copyright seriously is necessary to furthering our cause and
> > our goals. I do not think it would help us to collaborate with
> > projects which are seen by some (perhaps many) to be legally shady
> > when it comes to copyright. Whether or not we agree with the notion
> > that technology which enables copyright violation should be
> > accountable for any copyright violation that occurs using the
> > technology, we need to respect the law and need to appear
> > above-the-board.
> >
> >
>
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