[Foundation-l] Foundation Licensing Policy

[Ed Sanders]

Yet we both know there are a substantial number of users (maybe even a 
majority) who appreciate our core principles, but choose to either 
disagree with them, or interpret them as liberally as possible.

As long as these people stay vocal, and our policies have these 
syntactic loopholes, our preaching is going to have little effect.

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 3/27/07, Ed Sanders <ejsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem with #3 is it gives no clarification as to how narrow the
>> limits should be. If I have an article about a film (a copyrighted
>> contemporary work) and I upload 30 screenshots, I could argue each one
>> "complements" the article, and who's to say that only using 30 of the
>> ~200,000 frames of the film isn't within "narrow limits".
> 
> Or .... 10 minutes out of two hours? 100,000 times over again.
> (http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/google/viacomyoutube31307cmp.html)
> 
> Even if the board intended the resolution to be that open ended, keep
> in mind that this resolution sets the absolute limit of what will be
> tolerated on the Wikimedia servers.
> 
> It is not the case that what the resolution forbids is permitted.
> 
> We are all still charged with educating people and enforcing sane
> policies which uphold our core missions. This resolution is not a free
> pass on vigilance.
> 
> If the culture on a project is pushing us away from our core mission,
> the best solution is NOT to petition the board for a stricter base
> requirement (which will no doubt have unintended side effects),
> instead you should be making an effort to change the culture.
> 
> Many of our users are either completely uninformed or substantially
> confused by what "Free" means in the context of our projects
> (hopefully this is easier for Frwiki and the like). While this
> resolution will, no doubt, help raise awareness, each and every one of
> us also have a part to play both internally and externally.
> 
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