[Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

Tue Jul 12 20:34:39 UTC 2011

Pick a spot that you think is appropriate.
But you are missing the point.
The point in not to continue forward *under the current restrictions and requirements*, that is a dead horse.
The glamour is off the rose.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 1:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

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 The point is, the copyright police have taken a fear (of something which
 has never occurred in actual law), and made it a point of battle.

This is, I think, the wrong forum for our disagreement. I mostly rose to
our nasty casting of "copyright police", which was a mistake. Sorry to
veryone else :)
But my final comment is thus; you have misconstrued, I think, the point of
he argument against such links. In fact; pretty much all cases I have ever
een have been unambiguous in one way or another. So while I would entertain
he notion that such a policy is limiting our ability to link to
egitimately licensed/hosted content I suggest you kinda need to demonstrate
hat with specifics.
Perhaps an on-wiki discussion is the way to progress this.
Tom
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