On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> birgitte...@yahoo.com, 03/05/2012 14:17: > > Encouraging people outside the US to live as though they live inside it, >> is neither wise nor ethical. >> > > On the other hand, this is what happens (o could have happened) in other > parts of the Terms of use which apply to /users/ (not their contributions) > the USA laws where they're more restrictive. The whole section "Refraining > from Certain Activities" has this problem, which is very hard to avoid > given that nobody really knows what the "applicable law" is. There was a > lot of work on this part as well, I'm not able to judge the results. > Both problems originate from the decision to enforce via a private > contract the state laws (privatization of justice or statement of the > obvious? I don't know). The old ToU left everything implicit (or were > reticent, depending on how you see it). > > Nemo > It only makes sense to be somewhat explicit about the laws that apply, since they apply regardless of their presence in the ToU. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
