[Foundation-l] Copyright of Vatican stuff

Wed Jan 25 15:07:59 UTC 2006

2006/1/25, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net>:
> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
>
> >2006/1/25, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org>:
> >
> >
> >>Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I would recommend that you get some Roman Catholics,
> >>>preferably some Catholic clergy who are also active Wikimedians (there
> >>>must be a few somewhere) to help draft the letter.  The purpose here is
> >>>to try to use language styles that fits within the heirarchical culture
> >>>of the Church rather than catch phrases common to Wikimedians.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Essjay (on English-language Wikipedia) isn't clergy, but he is a
> >>professor of theology with a speciality in Catholicism. He's probably a
> >>great person to get in touch with:
> >>  --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay
> >>
> >>
> >
> >OK. I will contact him - but I guess if it make sence to send a letter
> >to the Vatican it should be done officialy by Foundation?
> >
> >--
> >Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
> >http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html
> >
> >
> This doesn't have to be an "official" contact.  Simply write the letter
> as a group of interested Wikimedia users who are interested in adding
> original content that comes from official Vatican sources.  That just
> keeps the legal hassles of writing a formal letter representing the
> foundation and lets the Vatican know that this is a volunteer project as
> well.
>

Well - I though we have legal department of Wikimedia Foundation for
some reasons...
What should we do if the answer from Vatican is "no" ?

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