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

[David Gerard]

2008/10/24 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/24 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/10/24 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>>> 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 I don't work for the Foundation.

> No, but you do represent the foundation as an official press contact.
> That it's not a paid position doesn't make a lot of difference.


Er, I'm a named volunteer press contact therefore the Foundation is
responsible for GFDL violations? That theory's on crack.


- d.