[Foundation-l] wiki search & wikimedia foundation collaboration with Limewire and Yacy ?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
If there is one thing that is relevant, then it is that Peer to Peer 
technology can be used for more than just copying material from one 
computer to another. The faulty argument used by the proprietary content 
industry is that because of sharing in a peer to peer network you must 
be a criminal. This is utter rubbish. Consequently this is exactly one 
of the projects were Open Source and Open Content projects need to work 
together because it will show that a complete technology is unjustly 
stigmatised.

When this technology is used in a way that is in line with the way the 
WMF treats copyright, we will be able to create an infrastructure where 
both organisations and communities will work together. I do applaud it 
when it can be a true cooperation, a cooperation where everybody 
collaborates for their own reasons and create something that everybody 
will be happy with.

Thanks,
   GerardM

Oldak Quill schreef:
> On 30/12/06, thomasasta at gmx.net <thomasasta at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hello Jim, hello Sam,
>>
>> you search for coders to get wiki-search out.
>> There are already a lot of coders in the list
>> http://search.wikia.com/wiki/search:Developers
>>
>> What do you think about a collaboration with limewire ?
>>
>> http://www.limewire.org/forum/showthread.php?p=3090&posted=1#post3090
>>
>> Integrate yacy in limewire and built up a colaboration with yacy, limewire and messenger cspace (ported to java) for wikia and wikimedia foundation.
>>
>> Both are java.
>> Kind regards tom.
>>     
>
> Preliminary: All respects to Limewire and the hard work that's been
> put into the development of the software. Also, I'm not making
> judgement on what the technologies behind Limewire enable end-users to
> do (FWIW, I am certainly *not* siding with the RIAA!).
>
> Someone on these mailing lists a couple of days ago wrote that
> Wikimedia was the only Web 2.0 venture that really took copyright
> seriously. Being the leading project in the free-content movement,
> taking copyright seriously is necessary to furthering our cause and
> our goals. I do not think it would help us to collaborate with
> projects which are seen by some (perhaps many) to be legally shady
> when it comes to copyright. Whether or not we agree with the notion
> that technology which enables copyright violation should be
> accountable for any copyright violation that occurs using the
> technology, we need to respect the law and need to appear
> above-the-board.
>
>