[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 11/11/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Jean-Baptiste Soufron <jbsoufron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > …
> > And this leads to my third and more important point. Accreditating
> > people will transform the Foundation from being a publisher to becoming
> > an editor... which means that we will now be liable for any content
> > written on the website by anyone else.
> >
> > Are you sure that the Foundation is ready to become liable for anything
> > written on Wikinews ?
> >
> > If yes, I think this would be a major change of the Foundation policy.
>
> Let me be clear. The foundation *would not* be accrediting anybody. Period. All
> the foundation would do is give permission for those people who have gone
> through a *community run* and accreditation process to use the Wikinews name
> and logo on press badges.
>
> -- mav

Wouldn't Wikimedia need permission from those who issue the press
badges before it could do that?