[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

[Anthony]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/2/20 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> > On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation
> >> Board of Trustees which says, that logo candidates are a special case
> >> for copyright issues or it is just your assumption?
> >
> > Why would it be a board document? Surely it would just have been said
> > on the pages about the contest.
> >
>
> Yes.. I could buy the idea. Unfortunatelly it had not been said on the
> contest page :-) The contest page does not say anything about legal
> copyright issues. See:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest
>

I can't remember if that rule got adopted after the "International logo
contest", or before it.  I do remember the rule, because I thought it was
incredibly hypocritical.

As you point out, it doesn't say anything about it on the contest page.
Contrast this with
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/archive-vote-1 which says
"All logo submissions must *not* be licensed under GFDL but the copyright
must be assigned to the Wikimedia Foundation".


> Do we agree with the idea, that at that
> time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not?
>

Definitely not.  You were supposed to release uploads under the GFDL, *if
you were the copyright owner*, but not everything that was uploaded was
under GFDL.