[Foundation-l] Offering Wikibooks content for sale

Wed Jul 5 16:13:08 UTC 2006

It would seem that it is not so narrow a case, since that is precisely the
problem.

On 7/5/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> >The important message I want to give here: this is not an issue of the
> >foundation versus the community, but rather about an individual versus
> >both the community and the foundation.  We should have been told first,
> >there should have been a discussion and some consideration given to a
> >number of important factors.
> >
> >
> I agree only in the very narrow case of the use of the trademarked name
> "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", and possibly any logos if they were used.
> I hope that was the complaint to Lula.
>
> In the more general case, the entire *point* of the GFDL is that you
> *don't* need the permission or approval of the original author to
> republish in any form you see fit.  It might be nice to consult with
> them, but we absolutely can not and should not prevent people from
> unilaterally printing books.
>
> -Mark
>
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