[Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

[Peter Coombe]

On 3 March 2010 13:26, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:49 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 March 2010 12:28, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for your copyfight.  There is plenty
>>> of reason to exclude this material regardless of the copyright/legal
>>> concerns,  and plenty of other people hosting it elsewhere.  Doubly
>>> true where the material is promoted with spammish efforts, like it has
>>> been with some of these cryptographic keys.
>>
>>
>> http://enwp.org/WP:09F9 is the previous thinking on this matter.
>>
>> Summary: memespam is a pain in the backside and interferes with doing
>> what we actually do.
>
> Thank you for reminding me of this, I generalized it a bit to also
> cover the TI signing keys.
>
> The talk page also has some excellent commentary.
>

I think we can agree that the keys are not appropriate content for
Wikipedia. However, they may be useful elsewhere e.g. in a Wikibook on
TI programming. Would the Foundation remove them there?

Pete / the wub