Lars Aronsson wrote:
Can someone explain why the Wikimedia Commons accepts uploads of printable PDF documents (e.g. brochures) but not the editable source version in Open Document Format (e.g. .ODT). This seems to violate the open source principle.
This should be an FAQ but, but it isn't obvious from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types
As ODT are ZIP files, it's hard to allow one kind of Zip based format while rejecting the others. It's not just to avoid people sharing all kind of files uploading them in zip, jar files (also zip-based) are a security risk. (and you could have a file being both OpenDocument and Jar!)
If you come up with a solution, we'll be happy to hear about it.