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

[geni]

On 20 February 2010 23:01, 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
>
> So, let's follow copyright paranoia for a while. What is the finall
> copyright paranoia conclusion? Do we agree with the idea, that at that
> time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not?


looking at the oldest version of the upload page it probably wasn't:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uploadtext&oldid=22573


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geni