On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:26:40PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2006, at 17:12, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:09:02PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > >> > >>>Frost does not ship any boards with dodgy names last time I looked. > >>>And > >>>freenet itself provides reasonably effective filesharing tools and > >>>will > >>>continue to improve in its quality for use in sharing large files. > >> > >>We have to be careful. > > > >Meaning what exactly? We need to be careful when dealing with users, > >certainly. But are you really saying that for example we shouldn't > >implement searching, or should impose arbitrary limits on file sizes, > >for legal reasons? > > No, what I mean is what I said, "We have to be careful getting too > closely associated with any third-party project that could be used to > make a case for inducement of copyright infringement against us." > > We can control what we say, and what we implement in Freenet, but we > have far less control over what can be said by the creators of third- > party software that we could be accused of endorsing.
In other words we have to bundle absolutely everything that could possibly be of use to a user, we have to write it ourselves, and we (freenet employees, freenet developers and freenet documentation writers) can't tell users about third party projects that happen to use freenet? > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060201/ce4259f2/attachment.pgp>
