[WikiEN-l] Announcing Wikimedia Foundation

[Jimmy Wales]

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Which reminds me that gnupedia.org and gnupedia.com are also owned by Bomis 
> (IIRC). Are these domain names included with point 1?

Yes.

> Is there a way for Wikipedia authors to grant Wikimedia the ability
> to defend the author's GNU FDLd copyrighted text without requiring
> the author to transfer ownership to Wikimedia? Or am I confusing
> "ownership" and "assignment"?

I think all of these are possible.  One possibility is to sell the
copyrights to Wikimedia foundation for $1 whenever it seems helpful to
a realistic cause, i.e. some kind of "live issue".

Like, let's say someone produces a work based on our work, but which
egregiously violates the GNU FDL and we can't talk them or pressure
them into stopping it.  So we end up trying to go to court to enforce
the GNU FDL.  At that point, it *might* be convenient to consolidate
our claims in a single entity.  But, lawyers at that time would advise
us the best course of action.

--Jimbo