[Foundation-l] File format policy

[Brianna Laugher]

On 20/01/2008, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org> wrote:
> Resolution:File format policy
>
> Whereas an essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is
> encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that
> may be created, used, and reused by a diverse community, without
> restriction, and because we believe that this mission requires thriving
> open formats and open standards on the web to allow the creation of
> content not subject to restrictions on creation, use, and reuse, it is
> resolved that all material, text , multimedia, or software, on Wikimedia
> Foundation projects must be in a format that is:
[...]
> 5. Not encrypted or otherwise subject to technical protection measures
> incompatible with the permissions of free content licensing.

Is this the anti-DRM clause? I think so, but I just want to confirm.

Is it right to include "software" in relation to this? Does it mean
software that runs on our servers? (Because the projects don't really
host software, except for mediawiki.)

cheers,
Brianna


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