[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

> I was under the impression that the WMF does hold a copyright over the
> entirety of a particular Wikipedia as they offer that collection for
> download. And re-users often use these dumps as seeds for their "illegal"
> re-use.
>
> http://download.wikimedia.org


The WMF doesn't hold a copyright over the dumps, they merely distribute it
(in violation of copyright law, I might add).