Thread:Project:Support desk/Pedofile is starting a mediawiki website/reply

Hello. By logo you mean the "powered by MediaWiki" logo? MediaWiki is licensed under GPL (see this), so anyone is free to use a copy of the software as long as it respects the licence's terms, no matter what they do with the software. You know there are military around the world using free software in the making of weapons which they really use afterwards in the massive and indiscriminate killing of people, children included, and they do it respecting the licence's terms. The question is whether the logo "powered by MediaWiki" must be in the site you say. I've read wmf:Trademark policy and wmf:Wikimedia visual identity guidelines and I don't see anything there that could be used against that site using the logo. Logo question apart, if that site is using a copy of MediaWiki, according to GPL, the site is obliged to make attribution, so one way or the other the site must say "I'm using MediaWiki", with or without the logo. Sorry. They would have to make attribution if they were changing the software and releasing it, not because they are using it. I hope I've answered your question, but I can't assure you of anything for sure, this is just what I think (this is no legal advice or opinion, I hope you understand). Bye.