[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

[Geoffrey Plourde]

OK maybe we need to redefine the Board and add a elected Auditing arm to serve as a Supreme Court. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:51:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

> 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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