[Foundation-l] Copyright of Vatican stuff

Wed Jan 25 13:09:15 UTC 2006

Hello,

There is a problem of potential copyright violation of putting to the
Wikisources and other Wikimedia projects encyclis and other documents
signed by Pope. According to:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2005615,00.html

and several other newspapers all these documents are copyrighted, and
Vatical officials are currently trying impose strict copyright.

We have quite a lot of this stuff in Wikisources. See for example:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_Encyclicals

and

http://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Kategoria:Religia

What should we do with this? Send a formal letter to the Vatican,
asking for GFDL or PD licence agreement - or we should simply delete
all these documents?

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Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html