On Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:40 PM Peter Gervai grin@tolna.net wrote:
The German Wikipedia community is working on setting up an "eingetragener Verein" (I found these translations on dict.leo.org:
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Jimbo, is this okay for you? Do you have any wishes or worries? The association will support all Wikimedia projects, not just Wikipedia. We will support the whole international project, and transfer part of the donations to the foundation if this is legaly possible, but focus on the German-speaking projects. Of course we're not planning a fork, and of course there is no cabal, at least not a German one.
How this association going to be related to wikimedia foundation and its projects? Is wikimedia going to be sued based on german laws from then on? Is your association going to be sued based on the content of any wikimedia project, or the content of the german wikipedia?
Wikimedia Germany calls itself a "sister organization" of Wikimedia Foundation. IMHO that doesn't mean a legal relation, so WM Germany is not responsible for things done by the WM Foundation and vice versa.
It's quite the same wording as in the by-laws of FSF Europe referring to the Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsfeurope.org/about/legal/constitution.en.html
According to this there is also no legal relation between WM Germany and the projects of the Foundation (including the German-speaking Wikipedia).
Arne [[de:Benutzer:Akl]]