[Foundation-l] Foundation's position on non-free images

Erik Moeller eloquence at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 22:21:39 UTC 2006


On 8/16/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think the projects are not (should not be) managed by the Foundation.
> The Foundation supports the projects, which is very different. Jimbo or
> others may provide some guidance, but it is not the role of the
> Foundation to say "fair use is allowed" or "fair use is not allowed".

I'll state for the record my disagreement with that. I think copyright
policy should be made on the Foundation level in cooperation with the
projects. The current situation is an unsustainable mess.

Erik



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