On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:20 AM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > throwing a tantrum because WMF won't give him 24TB of > > storage for a project that has legal questionablity > > If society depended on lawyers for determining the parameters of their > inverted indices, you would all be using WAIS for the last five years > of corporate press releases for your reference needs. The issue here is not merely a legal one -- there's a philosophical/mission question as well. Personally, I very much support the idea of doing something, somewhere, to archive links used as references. But should that be hosted (in a big way) on Wikimedia servers? We recently had an extensive deliberation about whether to host non-free content (in that case, video formats) on Wikimedia servers, and the resulting decision was a strong consensus against doing so. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video So at the very least, the contention that we should consider this project (to host copyrighted content on Wikimedia servers) an *obvious* "yes" is wrong. From what I'm seeing here, Marc's insistence on a more formal proposal, and a deliberative process of some kind to evaluate it, is absolutely correct. Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
