[Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

[David Gerard]

On 16 January 2014 14:14, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:

> This proposal asks to move to a "free as in beer" model, where content will
> be free to view, but not necessarily to reuse (and with the opaque license,
> it may not even be possible to tell). We could choose to make that change,
> but it is a major change to the founding principles of what we do.  As such
> it should be discussed directly and across all projects as such a major
> change, and not backdoored through a vote that is on its surface a question
> about format support.


And with a secret licence agreement. What on earth.


- d.