The original author still has a copyright although it is licensed through
the GNUFDL. Most material on Wikipedia is not in the public domain.
Fred
From: "David Speakman"
<david(a)speakman.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:05:16 -0800
To: "'English Wikipedia'" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Trading with the Enemy
1. WP authors give up all rights to the public domain. Once it is
uploaded onto the WP servers it no longer is a work belonging to any one
person.