[Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

Mike Godwin mnemonic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 14:49:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > This is exactly right.  If we had no copyright or trademark restrictions
> on
> > the Wikimedia logos and marks, it would be trivial for proprietary
> vendors
> > to use the unrestricted logos in association with unfree content.
>
> But how about with trademark and without copyright restrictions?
>

Why do you think trademark restrictions are okay but copyright restrictions
aren't?

If you are against copyright restrictions, why don't you favor releasing all
Wikimedia content into the public domain rather than using CC-BY-SA and
GFDL?


--Mike


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