2008/6/11 Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com:
IANAL, but how exactly can they sue them if they don't own the copyright (resp. patent rights or whatever) to the software? Are you suggesting that the WMF takes 'mandates' from individual WM contributors to sue on behalf of them?
It's something I have thought about more than once - making some kind of contract between me and the WMF, granting them rights to replublish the material I created for the various projects, and authorizing them to take action against copyright infringement on them on my behalf.