On 2 February 2011 19:04, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Note that another slight disadvantage of the current state of affairs
>> is that sites using InstantCommons (e.g. the OpenStreetMap wiki) are
>> currently able to use CopyrightByWikimedia images (well, more than
>> just ?able to use?, they can do that inadvertently; they cannot simply
>> distinguish the non-free files from the free rest).
>
> Whats being proposed here doesn't directly fix that, since if you
> setup multiple foreign repositories (at least how the code currently
> work), other people using you as a forign repository can get to
> foreign files through you. However, it'd probably make the coding
> required to exclude such files significantly easier.

Of course you will always _be able to_ get to the files (if only
through screen-scraping or whatever). The point is that currently, the
moment you enable InstantCommons, you get non-free files together with
the free ones whether you want them or not. If we move non-free files
away from Commons, the InstantCommons configuration should keep using
only commons.wikimedia.org as a repository, which would solve the
problem.

-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]

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