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mbz1	Post #1
Senior Member Group: Contributors Posts: 461 Joined: Member No.: 25,791	I'd like to ask, if Wikipedia could be sold, and if so, who'd get the money.

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GlassBeadGame	Post #2
Dharma Bum Group: Contributors Posts: 7,919 Joined: From: My name it means nothing. My age it means less. The country I come from is called the Mid-West. Member No.: 981	QUOTE(mbz1 @ Thu 29th September 2011, 4:48pm) I'd like to ask, if Wikipedia could be sold, and if so, who'd get the money. Sure. WMF foundation owns all the intangible property associated with the site: name, logo, good-faith etc along with infrastructure like servers, routers and such. They do not own the software it runs. The licensing is weird but WMF probably at no point in time actually owns the content and of course it can always be forked. WMF would have to use the proceeds for a charitable purpose or disburse them to an entity with a charitable purpose.

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