My gross guess is that the lawyer don't have a clue about the licenses
and just make a wild guess. I've put up a note on the sites involved,
and I am going to try to figure out what the lawyer really tries to say
tomorrow.
In very general terms; I guess he tries to say that I can't claim
payment because I've given away the codework to this company. But at the
same time he says the company has all rights to the content, which I
seriously doubt they has.
If they stick to their claim I'll try to write up a note to Mike Godwin.
John
Gerard Meijssen skrev:
Hoi,
Given that we have no clue what this lawyer has said.. given that we have no
clue what was asked of him, I am sure that there is not enough basis to
comment. It seems obvious from what you say that there is a lawyer that
claims something. It is equally obvious that there is a reply to such
claims. I do hope that you have asked Mike Godwin his opinion and given him
more information. You (may) know that we always claim that the authors are
the copyright holders so in the end they are the ones that have to make
waves.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum(a)jeb.no> wrote:
I just got a reply from a lawyer about wp-content
and other work on a
site, it is the "other" part that sparked the discussion (boring stuff
about somone that does not want to pay for some work), and they claim
that "all rights lies at (company), which is responsible for the site
and the continued operation of this (site)".
My question is, given that the content on this site comes from
Wikipedia, and is licensed gfdl, how can they claim that they have all
rights? Is this a violation of the license? I think it is if they try to
claim that they have ownership of the articles.
John
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