On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:48 AM, David Emrany <david.emr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the "Mediawiki" trademark was lost to WMF the day you and > Anthere placed the logo into public domain [1], how can the WMF now > spin-off this new organization ?. That's incorrect, putting something in the public domain does not remove trademark rights. In fact, trademark rights are often on names, which are almost without exception public domain copyrightwise. > Am I correct in assuming the Mediawiki software can be forked by > anybody interested along with attribution ? Attribution only is not enough, it is licensed under GPL, which means that a fork will also have to be under the same license. The essence of the license is the same as that of the CC-BY-SA that Wikipedia is under, the differences mostly have to do with technical points because of the different way in which computer programs are used compared to texts or artwork. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
