[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia Version 1.0 logo copyrighted to foundation

Wed May 3 10:35:33 UTC 2006

Titoxd at Wikimedia wrote:
> As part of the planned release of the English Wikipedia's "Version 1.0"
> release, one editor had created a logo for the project based on the
> Wikipedia globe, which would constitute a derivative work. I recently found
> out that the logo, found at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WP1_0_Icon.png, was "released" under the
> GFDL. As this is not possible due to the Foundation's policy, after
> consulting with Anthere, I changed the copyright of the image to point to
> the Foundation, as done in the Wikipedia logo page.
> 
>  
> 
> I'd like to know if this is enough to transfer ownership of the image to the
> Foundation, or if there is something left to be done. We might need another
> derivative logo for a planned test release, dubbed "Wikipedia 0.5" for now,
> so I would also like to know if doing so would be possible, if it became
> necessary for the responsible editorial team to do so.
> 
>  
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
>  
> 
> Titoxd.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Titoxd 

I let the legal and communication issues aside.
I would be interested to know what/who is planned to take care of the 
technical side of it.

Ant