Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 14:00:
The law counsel recommandation of 2007 wasn't
communicated to the
other WS and WE SHOULD IGNORE IT. It's clear that WMF has NOW to say
what is possible in the light of the Supreme Court Decision -
regarding Commons and the other WMF projects.
This is a clear issue of a WMF board resolution and not for an opinion
peace on a talk page which is executed from an incompetent WS branch.
I mentioned a Wikisource-specific old decision, but that's always been
the established policy on all WMF wikis, which has just been confirmed
by the new terms of use draft: «For clarity, applicable law includes at
least the laws of the United States of America»
(<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use#1._Our_Services>).
I'm not expressing an opinion about this, I've just remembered that
you're not trying to prevent a possible future decision but to overturn
an old established one, so it will be more difficult than you envision.
Nemo