[Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

[David Gerard]

On 18 December 2012 21:21, Pavel Richter <pavel.richter at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> And on the first page, it says: "A portion of the proceeds of each book
> will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission". Do
> we have any records on wether these donations actually happend and how much
> they were? And do we have a point of view in regards to such donations? I
> know that the books are propably OK under our licence, but I do not think
> it is a good idea to accept their money.


I'm pretty sure using our name to imply the books are in any way
charitable is something we could reasonably question on trademark
grounds - direct intent to deceive the end consumer.


- d.