Poor Mike. You could blog it on Wikimedia blog, even from now? Now we have the policy with a detailed FAQ though, still I guess I'll keep posting some questions - it doesn't mean the policy is poorly written, but just I'd love to see you around.
/me ducks On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > masti writes: > > It's crazy. sv.wiki still has "unfree" logo on every page :) >> It is "unfree" to protect wiki identity. >> > > This is exactly right. If we had no copyright or trademark restrictions on > the Wikimedia logos and marks, it would be trivial for proprietary vendors > to use the unrestricted logos in association with unfree content. > > My experience has been that those who object to this haven't given adequate > attention to the GFDL and Creative Commons licenses we operate under -- > neither license is "free," and each imposes restrictions and obligations on > reusers of content. What we're doing with the Wikimedia trademarks is > designed to reinforce this insistence on the freedom of the content we are > disseminating. > > My guess, admittedly based on nothing but anecdotal evidence, is that the > Swedish Wikipedians who created this largely artificial and unnecessary > dispute have not consulted independent trademark and copyright experts with > regard to the rationale for their decision. > > Robert Rohde writes: > > Personally, I also feel that it sets a bad example for a free content >> company like WMF not to have any formal policy on the third party use >> of their logos. Even within Wikimedia there is no agreement about >> what is allowed and what isn't, except that Mike and others have >> generally said they don't object to most uses by the community, even >> while reserving full copyright control and the right to object in the >> future. >> > > I feel as if the many months of work I put into developing a new, clearer, > liberal trademark policy for WMF has gone to waste! > >> >> It has been three or four years since I first asked members of the WMF >> to draft a policy on logo use that would be clear about what is >> allowed both in the community and for reusers. > > > And now I really, really feel it was wasted! > > Given that we don't have clear policies regarding logo use, I think >> the Swedish Wikipedia decision is entirely defensible. > > > Darn it! A waste, I say! And I worked so hard to give you > <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_Policy>. > > > --Mike > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
