Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-23 Thread geni
On 21 February 2010 11:15, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Legal decision should be taken out from project's communities jurisdiction  and given into hands of professional lawyers or at least people who had

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-23 Thread geni
On 21 February 2010 10:30, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Anthony wrote: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Do we agree with the idea, that at that time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not Definitely not.  You were supposed to release

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-23 Thread geni
On 21 February 2010 10:33, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: 2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge: Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-23 Thread geni
On 20 February 2010 23:01, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/20 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees which says, that logo

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-22 Thread teun spaans
If these potential logos are not on a free license, as you suggest (and i have no reason to assume you are wrong), then they should certainly not be moved to commons. Meta seems like a correct place. If the rules of meta can be changed so that these copyrighted images can stay hosted there?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Anthony wrote: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Do we agree with the idea, that at that time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not Definitely not.  You were supposed to release uploads under the GFDL, *if you were the copyright owner*, but not

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: 2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge: Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it believes in God. I am not quite sure what you wanted to say :-) Anyway -

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Chad
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Legal decision should be taken out from project's communities jurisdiction  and given into hands of professional lawyers or at least people who had copyright law practical training. While I don't agree that we need to

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: While I don't agree that we need to take this away from the community and hand it to a team of lawyers, I must say that the practical training caught my eye. Would it be possible for the Foundation to get Mike--and other

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Anthony wrote: Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Do we agree with the idea, that at that time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not Definitely not. You were supposed to

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Moreover if the orignal copyright owner transferred the copyright to Foundation - Foundation do no need to follow GFDL when using the logo - but it cannot forbid to use the logo by others if they follow GFDL and do not

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent) On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Legal decision should be taken out from project's communities jurisdiction and given into hands of professional lawyers or at least people who had

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread geni
On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Evidence? -- geni ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Evidence? -- Evidence of what? At the beginning

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
K. Peachey wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Yes, but not everyone knows that and any tom, dick

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: K. Peachey wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread geni
On 20 February 2010 19:14, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Yes...Copyright paranoia in action... You can always copy those files as long as they exists and simply create your private website with all of them. I wonder who is going to sue you for copyvio in such the case. I guess nobody... Anyway this is indeed big question if we

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 19:14, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees which says, that logo candidates are a special case for copyright issues or it is just your assumption? Why would it be a board document?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
K. Peachey wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: You're shifting the burden onto the wrong people. If the images followed the general rule that prevailed when they were uploaded the presumption is that they followed that rule unless there was an exception specified

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees which says, that logo candidates are a special case for copyright issues or it is just your

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Florence Devouard
I'll engage myself on all of them (GFDL presumed) I am tagging the 370. Already did 200 today. Will finish the last 170 by hand tomorrow. That's a fascinating job. Ant On 2/20/10 6:54 AM, The Cunctator wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it believes in God. I am not quite sure what you wanted to say :-) Anyway - this cited sentence is for me a nice expression

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/20 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees which says,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-20 Thread Anthony
By the way, here's a thread from 2007, which unfortunately never came to a conclusion as to the answer to the question: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/94312 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread David Gerard
-- Forwarded message -- From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com Date: 19 February 2010 21:19 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent) To: wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org An editor on META is having the crazy idea of tagging all historical logo

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/19 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: -- Forwarded message -- From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com Date: 19 February 2010 21:19 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent) To: wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org An editor on META is having the

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread geni
On 20 February 2010 00:23, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I know the actual logos are trademarked, but the proposals aren't. If these are creations by Wikimedians, then hopefully they are under a free license. They should be uploaded to Commons and organized, if so! -Chad For the most

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread The Cunctator
Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2010 00:23, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I know the actual logos

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread Aphaia
Till some moment, all updates were assumed under GFDL ... or it was said you agree to release your upload under GFDL with your pushing this button or something alike. No tagged old images could be legacy from that era. For more details, see related mediawiki files' past revisions. Cheers, On

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Yes, but not everyone knows that and any tom, dick or harry that randomly finds