[Foundation-l] External free image repositories

[Ryan Kaldari]

Typically the Foundation has been very reluctant serve any content that 
is not under their control. There are two primary reasons for this:

* Security/privacy - This is mainly an issue for remote Javascript, but 
also for images. Images can set cookies via their headers and thus be 
used for user tracking.

* Stability - If a 3rd party service goes down, we have no control over 
getting it fixed in a timely manner. This is one of the reason we don't 
use ReCaptcha for our login captcha.

Ryan Kaldari


On 12/16/11 1:57 PM, Strainu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has the foundation ever expressed an opinion on using external free
> image repositories in WMF projects? The licensing policy only says
> that the content should be free, but without the specific limitations
> that are present on Commons. I was wondering if it would be acceptable
> for a project to serve (without hosting) content that is PD in another
> country (presumably the country with the project's language as an
> official language) but not in the US.
>
> And if it would be, how could we ensure that the project would indeed
> be for free images only?
>
> Thanks,
>    Strainu
>
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