2016-03-24 3:35 GMT-07:00 Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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