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Re: visualization of CVS commits
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David Kastrup |
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Re: visualization of CVS commits |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:09:20 +0200 |
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"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard M Stallman writes:
>
> > if we release such a video in ogg theora, it will end up in
> > flash on youtube the first day.
>
> > That is a big problem, and I have been thinking about how to take
> > action on the issue. I'm thinking about making a short video
> > about this issue to put at the front of all videos we release.
>
> Why not simply license it only for free formats?
I don't think that you can define it in a way that will cover future
"free" formats and stop any "non-free" format reliably. One of the
worst consequences of the overdone copyright protection is bit and media
rot: stuff becomes non-playable at some time without a legal path to
conversion. That's not what we want to do ourselves.
> You're going to have to use some kind of "invariant sections" clause
> in any case, or somebody will just slice the anti-flash speech off
> when they rip theora to flash.
I don't think that we should prohibit people from picking a bad format
(for some, it might be all they have, and it is really hard to define in
a reliable way that does the right thing in most cases in future), but
we should not set a bad example ourselves.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, (continued)
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/25
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/26
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Paul R, 2008/06/25
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/26
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/06/26
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Thomas Lord, 2008/06/26
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Thomas Lord, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/28
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Nick Roberts, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Paul R, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, tomas, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/27
- Re: visualization of CVS commits, Thomas Lord, 2008/06/27