Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-25 Thread Sam Johnston
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM, David Goodman > wrote: > > My view is that any restriction of distribution that is not absolutely > > and unquestionably legally necessary is a violation of the moral > > rights of the contributors. We cont

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-25 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM, David Goodman wrote: > My view is that any restriction of distribution that is not absolutely > and unquestionably legally necessary is a violation of the moral > rights of the contributors. We contributed to a free encyclopedia, in > the sense that the material c

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-25 Thread Nathan
*Kohser wrote: I might be able to give a better answer if you could tell us whether it is Taco Stand A or it is Taco Stand B in your analogy that is the non-profit charity, funded with tax-deductible dollars, whose donors probably fully expected that their money would NOT be used to pay rent to th

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-25 Thread Platonides
Gregory Kohs responds: > > I am of the understanding that none of the members of the WMF Board or staff > are > related by blood or marriage to any of the owners or staff of Wikia, > Inc. Well, my understanding is otherwise, but I don't think that such difference makes a difference here. __

Re: [Foundation-l] CIA/NSA development of mediawiki

2009-01-25 Thread Platonides
Brian wrote: > That means I can clarify why my much hated factual correction was > appropriate. Here was the original statement: > >> If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure > > Let's briefly suppose that there are binaries for mediawiki (which is false > - but suppose they