You know .... whatever - it was put to youtube - it doesn't say - hey I
will not make it available any other way.

But yeah, that's all good stuff...very FSF..good for you.


On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:39 -0500, Fabián Rodríguez wrote:
> On 02/27/2011 11:51 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Howdy All,
> >
> > Just uploaded some yesterdays videos - not edited, these are just short 
> > comments from show attendees.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com
> [...]
> 
> TLDR; Please don't push videos to YouTube only, at least also upload to
> archive.org for accessibility and free formats availability. Put a clear
> license on any material.
> 
> Hi Drew, all,
> 
> I'm my opinion YouTube's ToS are incompatible with several core values
> of software freedom and the LibreOffice project specifically:
> http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
> 
> In the spirit of coherence with the LibreOffice project (ie. free, open
> formats) and accessibility of such files, can we *not* upload them
> *exclusively* to YouTube ? To me this is very much the equivalent of
> publishing software under a non-free license, without its source code. I
> see there's already one message in this thread asking how to get offline
> versions of such videos.
> 
> I've raised this concern before, and wrote a guide on how to upload
> videos to archive.org:
> http://www.wikihow.com/Upload-Videos-to-Archive.Org-and-Make-Them-Available-in-Free%2C-Open-Formats
> 
> I must emphasize I can't force anyone not to upload to YouTube only, but
> by doing so you're sending a confusing message - that you and TDF and/or
> any of the marketing team members, specially when doing so at an event,
> agree to YouTube's ToS. It's also not ideal for anyone wanting to remix
> / reuse such videos.
> 
> With such limited resources any and all material we produce should
> ideally have a clear license, include source files on a server where ToS
> permit its free, unlimited, unrestricted use.
> 
> I don't mean to come across harsh, and I believe 99% of the time there's
> only good intentions when sharing via YouTube but we need to get smarter
> at this ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
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> 
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