On Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:40 PM
Peter Gervai <grin(a)tolna.net> wrote:
The German
Wikipedia community is working on setting up an
"eingetragener Verein" (I found these translations on
dict.leo.org:
[...]
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
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