[Foundation-l] Schools Wikipedia & GFDL - no direct credit to authors?

[Joe Szilagyi]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/10/24 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
> > Since according to themselves  this project i" in coordination with
> > the Wikimedia Foundation",giving David Derard as the foundation
> > contact, does that mean that the WMF approves officially of such
> > general copyright statements?
>
> The WMF doesn't own the content, so what the WMF does and doesn't
> approve of doesn't really matter legally.
>

And schools-wikipedia.org is owned by that UK charity, so they are
ultimately responsible for any libel or copyright violations they are
redistributing (like the example one I gave) but it makes the WMF look
awfully dumb if we're violating GFDL in this project, and giving them these
articles with copyright violating images. Did we assemble the pages and
selections, and edit them down, or did the SOS people?


- Joe