[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?
Thomas Dalton
thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 16:51:29 UTC 2008
> IANAL, but..
>
> So do routers, switches, etc - the data is buffered and kept in
> memory for shorter or longer time on nearly every piece of internet
> infrastructure.
> Squids just speed up data delivery from data store somewhere else.
> The major issue in such case would be do we work on squid storages as
> standalone media systems (thats like, if you start filtering content
> - you're the one who is responsible for it in the end).
> Squids are 'data transfer' infrastructure, not 'data storage'
> infrastructure, and operating a squid is same as operating a browser
> (which also does caching), or operating network backbone.
Now, I'm neither a lawyer nor a network expert, but as I understand
it, routers etc. only store the data as long as is necessary for a
particular transfer. The squids cache data from one transfer in case
it's needed for another transfer - I suspect that makes a big
difference.
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