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

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> Anthony wrote:
>> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
>>
>>> 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.

But in case of those uploads the copyright owners (authors of the
logos) uploaded them personally. The funny part of that story is that
it means that current Wikimedia logo seems to be under GFDL :-) GFDL
does not interdict copyright transfer, as well as do not interdict
applying for trademark registration. Moreover if the orignal copyright
owner transferred the copyright to Foundation - Foundation do no need
to follow GFDL when using the logo - but it cannot forbid to use the
logo by others if they follow GFDL and do not break the trademark law.
(Trademark registration and copyrights are two different things).


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