[Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

[Aaron Adrignola]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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
>

For reference:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TI-Basic_84_Programming
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TI-Basic_89_Programming
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TI-Basic_Z80_Programming

-Adrignola