[Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Przykuta <przykuta at o2.pl> wrote:
>> > Or just use common sense that it's silly for a Wikimedia project to say it's
>> > not allowed to use a logo own by Wikimedia Foundation....
>>
>> It is not "common sense" to depend on the relationship between the
>> project and the hosting organisation when dealing with free content.
>> downstream users of the content are not Wikimedia projects.
>>
>> --
>> John Vandenberg
>>
> Hmm. It could be uploaded under cc-by-sa (3.0) by user:This_logo_is_one_of_the_official_logos_used_by_the_Wikimedia_Foundation with OTRS ticket

They could, but that doesn't make it right. If someone uploads this
image under cc-by-sa that would be just as much copyright violation as
doing the same with any other image, if that person did not have
permission from the Wikimedia Foundation to do so.


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com