On 5/6/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps it's because I've just woken up in the past hour, but are you joking, or do we actually have a policy to only use equipment on the NOC/infrastructure level that only runs open-source/GFDL compliant?
(If we do have that policy: very cool, A++ as they say.)
For site operation yes (I don't know if it is actually policy per se since the idea and practice predates the formal foundation). There have been various foundation functions for which non open source software has been used and of course editors can use whatever software they like although we generally point people in the direction of open source stuff.
It has some unexpected benifits in that the handful of people who can convert files to .ogg Theora generaly know what they are doing with regards to copyright.