[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

[Ray Saintonge]

John at Darkstar wrote:
> This is public and has been so since the first posting. The press
> release was just a reference of whats going on at Wikimedia Commons, the
> specific user page describing the case and this mailing list. It is sent
> out through the mailing list for Wikimedia Norway and it is not a
> statement on the behalf of Wikimedia Foundation or anybody else.
>
> If someone feel they should not be quoted on what they write on this
> mailing list they should probably not write it at all as this list is
> public. This seems to be a real problem as people tend to believe that
> they write something for me, myself and us two, while the rest of the
> world infact can read it at will.
>
>   
The problem here seems with the term "press release", which suggests 
some kind of official status.  There is nothing official about a mailing 
list discussion, or even about the choice by the threatened individual 
to make the lawyer's letter public.

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