[Foundation-l] Litigation costs

[Anthony]

On Jan 12, 2008 12:37 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is our admins that enforce policies. It is the collectivity of a project
> > that fails in its duty to ensure that our data can be published under the
> > license we claim our data is available under.
> > If you want to have it worded in a different way: it is up to all of us to
> > ensure that our projects conform to the license that we make them available
> > under.
>
>
> Your statement about admin responsibilities is simply incorrect. On
> en:wp, it's been a long-standing principle that no admin is *obliged*
> to take any particular admin action.
>
So admins have special powers but no responsibilities.  What was the
analogy with janitors again?