[Foundation-l] Ownership of articles from Wikipedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Given that we have no clue what this lawyer has said.. given that we have no
clue what was asked of him, I am sure that there is not enough basis to
comment. It seems obvious from what you say that there is a lawyer that
claims something. It is equally obvious that there is a reply to such
claims. I do hope that you have asked Mike Godwin his opinion and given him
more information. You (may) know that we always claim that the authors are
the copyright holders so in the end they are the ones that have to make
waves.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:

> 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.
>
> John
>
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