Re: Please don't upload to YouTube only - was Re: [us-marketing] Some user feedback from SCaLE

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:13 -0500, drew wrote:
> You know .... whatever - it was put to youtube - it doesn't say - hey I
> will not make it available any other way.
>
> But yeah, that's all good stuff...very FSF..good for you.

and us actually - the files will be converted to OGV for download, might
fit on the wiki.

Will let you know when.

Thanks

Drew

> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:39 -0500, Fabián Rodríguez wrote:
> > On 02/27/2011 11:51 AM, drew@baseanswers.com wrote:
> > > Howdy All,
> > >
> > > Just uploaded some yesterdays videos - not edited, these are just short comments from show 
> > > attendees.
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com
> > [...]
> >
> > TLDR; Please don't push videos to YouTube only, at least also upload to
> > archive.org for accessibility and free formats availability. Put a clear
> > license on any material.
> >
> > Hi Drew, all,
> >
> > I'm my opinion YouTube's ToS are incompatible with several core values
> > of software freedom and the LibreOffice project specifically:
> > http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
> >
> > In the spirit of coherence with the LibreOffice project (ie. free, open
> > formats) and accessibility of such files, can we *not* upload them
> > *exclusively* to YouTube ? To me this is very much the equivalent of
> > publishing software under a non-free license, without its source code. I
> > see there's already one message in this thread asking how to get offline
> > versions of such videos.
> >
> > I've raised this concern before, and wrote a guide on how to upload
> > videos to archive.org:
> > http://www.wikihow.com/Upload-Videos-to-Archive.Org-and-Make-Them-Available-in-Free%2C-Open-Formats
> >
> > I must emphasize I can't force anyone not to upload to YouTube only, but
> > by doing so you're sending a confusing message - that you and TDF and/or
> > any of the marketing team members, specially when doing so at an event,
> > agree to YouTube's ToS. It's also not ideal for anyone wanting to remix
> > / reuse such videos.
> >
> > With such limited resources any and all material we produce should
> > ideally have a clear license, include source files on a server where ToS
> > permit its free, unlimited, unrestricted use.
> >
> > I don't mean to come across harsh, and I believe 99% of the time there's
> > only good intentions when sharing via YouTube but we need to get smarter
> > at this ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
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> > ~
> > Fabián Rodríguez
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab



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