[Foundation-l] Ownership of articles from Wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/10/20 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>:
> I just got a reply from a lawyer about wp-content and other work on a
> site, it is the "other" part that sparked the discussion (boring stuff
> about somone that does not want to pay for some work), and they claim
> that "all rights lies at (company), which is responsible for the site
> and the continued operation of this (site)".
>
> My question is, given that the content on this site comes from
> Wikipedia, and is licensed gfdl, how can they claim that they have all
> rights? Is this a violation of the license? I think it is if they try to
> claim that they have ownership of the articles.

Ask a lawyer. My non-expert opinion is that just saying you have
rights doesn't mean much so you're not violating the license unless
you actually do something which would require rights you don't have.
You might be able to do them for defamation of title, I don't really
know anything about that.