[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

[christophe.henner@wikimedia.fr]

> > At any rate, it would be impolite and a breach of loyalty to the
> > foundation and community to go ahead with such a plan without permission
> > and without giving the Foundation the opportunity to comment on the
> > proposal and offer suggestions.
>
> I do not agree :-). It is the whole point of freely licensed material
> that it can be redistributed at will, and without asking permission.
> You should just make sure that all photos are properly
> sourced/attributed etc. in your archive and go on with it!
>
>
> Announcing it on this list is about as polite as you need to get, I believe. ;-)
>
> Delphine
>

I would like to know, will the archive contain freely licensed images
or Fair Use? If it's free images I don't see the point of the
autorization, if it's Fair Use image... the foundation has no right on
the images and can't give any autorizations

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schiste