On Monday 30 January 2006 10:03, Siegbert Baude wrote:
- freedom of speech, i.e. ask the legal staff at Novell how you can give hints to MP3 and DVD playback (#1 FAQ) without getting Novell in trouble. Is there a legal difference between a wiki and mailing list/forum archives? Must these archives and the wiki be located outside the USA and Germany (e.g. in Norway), to be legal? If they are outside, is it legal to say on the wiki "for more information have a look at forum.no"? Is Novell in trademark trouble if the forum is called *suse*.no or *opensuse*.no? Just tell your lawyers, that they are paid to give a solution for our need to answer questions; maybe therefore they should go the supreme court and make the amendments of the constitution valid again. ;-) If they don't find a solution, an official forum will be a sure failure, if every third answer will be "it is not allowed to discuss this here".
Not really, it would be "Please refer to the Restricted Formats article at the wiki, http://www.opensuse.org/Restricted Formats " I think thats a good thing because it raises awareness as to copyright, patent encumberment, and the issues with the DMCA as well as DRM. I'll continue to expand upon this article, with more links, more information, but still nothing that could be considered even remotely illegal. What it does do is give a general overview of solutions, and enough information, combined with google, to do whatever they want to. I personally feel thats quite sufficient.
So we should train the moderators to make people publish results in the wiki. Also on the mailing lists it should just become part of netiquette to finish a thread with "please, document your solution on the wiki".
I think this is an excellent idea - moderators and admins that are on the list, keeping both abreast of major topical discussions.
In this model, the backbone of the community, glueing all members together, are the moderators and volunteers regulating the flow of information and instructing people to care for sustainability by writing bugreports and wiki articles.
Well said
Ciao Siegbert
Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin