On May 1, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
- Second, there are no plans of any kind to release a 'for-profit'
version of the Wikipedia, for the separate benefit of me or Bomis or any other company that I own, control, work for, etc. We *will* be working to release Wikipedia on CD-ROM, in paper format, etc., but these will be projects *of the foundation*, carried out with perfect consistency with our nonprofit mission.
It may be worth reminding people of the obvious: that the copyright to entire contents of the Wikipedia is held by the individual contributors, and licensed under the GFDL. It's not owned by Bomis, Jimbo, or even the Wikimedia Foundation.
Peter
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