[Savannah-hackers-public] wikimedia, make a fork and the GPL

[Sebastian Wieseler]

Hello Dave(?). :-)


Another problem:
wikimedia (powered by SF.net) was released under the GNU GPL, but lacks
any information about license + copyright.
The project has got a COPYING file, but any source file lacks
these notices.

Now oklahoma 
(https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=4542)
wants to make a "fork" (or at least something like that -> "derivative work").

But if he wants to copy /all/ files from wikimedia and then work on this, 
he had to insert license/copyright/permission-to-copy statements.

But he also had to protect the rights of the original author(s).
Here we have got a problem.


Because of the insert GPL in COPYING we can assume that *all* files were 
published
under the GPL? So he can insert GPL license stuff at top of each file of source 
code?
Can we also assume that the pictures were published under the GPL?


And what about the copyright stuff? How does he know where the original author
is of a file? Or can we assign all copyright per default to the Wikimedia 
project?
:-)


Can you please clarify the points to me? :-/


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