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Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Videos of the Debconf (Debian conference) 13



Hi Francesco,

On Montag, 19. August 2013, Francesco Poli wrote:
> I am puzzled: I glanced over the mentioned URL and two things struck me
> as unclear.
> 
>  • The DebConf13 schedule links each talk with videos hosted on
> http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/
> under three formats (high ogv, low ogv, high webm): why another
> location (http://www.irill.org/videos/debconf13)

because IRILL wants to document their work as well.

> for videos under
> different formats (webm, mp4)?
> Are they the same videos in different formats?

yes. (though the videos on IRILLs website used our high quality .ogv files as 
source, not the DV material)
 
>  • The IRILL website claims that the videos are under Creative Commons
> by-nc-nd v3.0 fr, which is a horribly non-free licensing choice!
> On the other hand, videos hosted on meetings-archive.debian.net are
> luckily under an Expat/MIT-like license
> (http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/LICENSE)
> which is a very simple and good DFSG-free licensing choice.
> Why are videos hosted by IRILL not released under the same Expat-like
> license used on meetings-archive.debian.net ?

because IRILL/Sylvestre made a mistake, which will hopefully be corrected 
soon. The licence on the IRILL page is wrong.

Sylvestre, while we're at it, could provide these html5 files for video.d.n as 
well, please?


cheers,
	Holger

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