Daniel Mayer wrote:
But what is legal to have on the Wikimedia server is a
separate
issue and only the laws of the United States and California apply to
that.
One caveat that I would like to introduce here is that we do want
Wikipedia to be easily redistributable in the majority of countries
around the world. Therefore _some_ concession to non-U.S. law is
warranted in _some_ cases.
But really, this sort of discussion is generally just fun abstraction,
since I'm not sure that there are really that many cases in which the
copyright or censorship laws of the countries we're most interested in
actually restrict us much.
I doubt very much whether anyone will be able to legally sell
Wikipedia 1.0 on a streetcorner in North Korea, nor do I think we can
seriously entertain the sort of self-censorship that would be required
in order to make that happen.
--Jimbo