[Wikipedia-l] File upload Copyright notice

Axel Boldt axel at uni-paderborn.de
Thu Jan 31 20:09:16 UTC 2002


The current file upload utility requires the user to "donate" the
copyright to "Wikipedia". Wikipedia is no legal entity, so this
doesn't make sense. It is also not in line with the way we have
handled copyrights up to know for text submissions: the user retains
copyright, but licenses the work under GFDL. I suggest that this be
changed.

Axel



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