He wasn't assuming bad faith; he was accurately describing the situation without ascribing intent. On Jan 16, 2014 7:36 AM, "Andrew Lih" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Todd Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There aren't two principles in conflict here. > > > > This proposal asks to move to a "free as in beer" model, where content > will > > be free to view, but not necessarily to reuse (and with the opaque > license, > > it may not even be possible to tell). We could choose to make that > change, > > but it is a major change to the founding principles of what we do. As > such > > it should be discussed directly and across all projects as such a major > > change, and not backdoored through a vote that is on its surface a > question > > about format support. > > > As much as I hate how MPEG-LA and MPEG-4 creates a non-free climate for our > video, it's unfair to use "backdoor" to characterize intent of either > community members or WMF employees in this area. > > Video has been a big shortcoming in Wikipedia and in the FLOSS community in > general. Overcoming means we need to consider the unique nature of the > problem with some possible new solutions. That's not backdooring -- that's > directly addressing the needs of content creation given the current legal > and IP situation. > > Let's debate the merits of the case and not assume bad faith of the folks > putting it forward. > > -Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
