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

[Andrew Lih]

BTW, Luis from WMF has put a very lengthy and detailed analysis of the
legal issues that does help quite a bit, at the end of the RFC:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video#Commercial_use_and_h264

TLDR:

"…there may be good moral, ethical, and strategic reasons to oppose or
support this plan. However, in my opinion, non-commercial restrictions on
the use of particular h264-based devices, or their interactions with
Creative Commons, are not good reasons to oppose it" -LVilla
(WMF)<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LVilla_(WMF)>
(talk <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LVilla_(WMF)>) 05:06,
17 January 2014 (UTC)






On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Chad Horohoe <chorohoe at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2014/1/16 Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com>:
> > > As much as I am pushing for MP4 adoption in Wikimedia to help our
> lagging
> > > video efforts, MPEG-4 patent holders/licensors are not helping their
> > case:
> > > [snip]
> >
> > I worry more about the "no, because that would mean more video content
> > uploaded to commons" votes (see Rilke, Turelio). I find it disturbing
> > that we got to a point were we basically *refuse* new contributions.
> >
>
> Me too. Anytime I see a "but it will enable bad contributions" argument for
> reasons not to do things I get a little sad. Every well-meaning
> contribution
> should be valued, IMHO.
>
> -Chad
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