2016-03-24 3:35 GMT-07:00 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
Since the "Mediawiki" trademark was lost to WMF the day you and Anthere placed the logo into public domain [1], how can the WMF now spin-off this new organization ?.
That's incorrect, putting something in the public domain does not remove trademark rights.
Indeed, acknowledging that it did not need to enforce strong copyrights on the logos to protect the trademarks, WMF released all its remaining non-free logos under CC-BY-SA in October 2014: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/
"MediaWiki" is an internationally registered trademark, as you can verify e.g., through http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/
Erik