[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and the politics of encryption

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

David Gerard, 04/09/2013 16:52:
> On 4 September 2013 15:46, Brion Vibber <bvibber at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> "But that's what Baidu did and we hate them!" you say?
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> AIUI our quibble with Baidu was that they didn't respect the licenses.
> A suitable license on the content and it'd all be fine. Did we ever
> get anywhere with that?

The recent comparisons between Baidu and Wikipedia which popped up 
around Wikimania pointed out that Baidu is mainly a parking lot of 
copyright violations and self-promotion copied from all over the web, so 
I doubt they'd be able to use or apply any licensing scheme even if they 
wanted.

Nemo