2016-03-24 3:35 GMT-07:00 Andre Engels <[email protected]>:

>> 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.

Indeed, acknowledging that it did not need to enforce strong
copyrights on the logos to protect the trademarks, WMF released all
its remaining non-free logos under CC-BY-SA in October 2014:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/

"MediaWiki" is an internationally registered trademark, as you can
verify e.g., through http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/

Erik

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