[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Announcing Wikimedia Foundation

[Pedro M.V.]

I think we need a free code Wikimedia Program to recieve radio broadcasting in the Internet . This would be a program similar to real player and media player, but free code, not property owned by a company.

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From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:27 AM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Announcing Wikimedia Foundation


> I sent this message to the wrong list. Sorry.
> 
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> 
> Subject: Announcing Wikimedia Foundation
> Date: Friday 20 June 2003 04:19 pm
> From: Daniel Mayer 
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> 
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> >I'm pleased to announce the existence of the
> >Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
> >organized under the laws of Florida, United States.
> >I am transferring to this new corporation the assets
> >that follow:
> >
> >1. All Nupedia.com/net/org/etc. domain names
> >2. All Wikipedia.com/net/org/etc. domain names
> >
> >3. All copyrights in software or articles that were
> >previously owned by Bomis, Inc. and already placed
> >under a copyleft license.  (This includes work-for-hire
> >by Jason, Tim, Larry, Toan, Liz, and myself, as well as
> >any other Bomis employees who may have worked on
> >these projects as a part of their job, but doesn't include
> >any work by thoseparties conducted on their own time
> >or while not an employee of Bomis.)
> 
> Sweet! Thanks for setting up the Foundation (especially with the name
> "Wikimedia"). As the owner of the Wikimedia.org and Wiktionary.org domain
> names I hereby transfer ownership and control of these domain names to the
> Wikimedia Foundation as soon as it is in the position to receive these assets
> (per your personal email to me Jimbo).
> 
> I also noticed the Nupedia stuff. Does that mean that Nupedia is also now
>  part of the Wikimedia family? I'm not certain if the Nupedians (if there are
>  any left or who care) would be too happy about that.... Oh well, maybe we
>  can bring some life to that project. I still think Nupedia (perhaps under
>  the name GNUpedia) should be refactored to be a repository of
>  expert-approved Wikipedia articles (along the lines of Larry's Sifter
>  project). Thus that project would be a stable distribution of Wikipedia
>  content but all editing would still take place at Wikipedia.
> 
> Which reminds me that gnupedia.org and gnupedia.com are also owned by Bomis
> (IIRC). Are these domain names included with point 1?
> 
> Oh, and I'm going to assign copyright to all my edits to Wikimedia as part of
> my Will and since I plan on living a very long time it will be awhile before
> Wikimedia owns my text. I am still weary about having one entity in control
> of so much content (which brings up the possibility of proprietary forks if,
> for example, Wikimedia goes bankrupt and creditors try to sell Wikimedia's
> assets).
> 
> 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"?
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
> 
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