The official definition from Knight's seminal paper "A Descriptive Model of the Intra-Firm Innovation Process" [1]:
"Bootlegging: In some instances the innovator may be able
to implement a new idea by keeping the development under
cover from the disapproving power in the organization
until it is introduced. At that time it may be impossible
for the organization to reverse itself."
It's reasonable to consider the authority of a Wikipedia entry, but in this case I believe the maintainers simply modernized "under cover" and "disapproving power".
Good thing Kenneth E. Knight introduced the notion bootlegging in 1967; well before the gnomes could ever get their filthy mitts near it.
Try not to let a few control-freaks on Wikipedia desecrate your language more than it already has. You owe them nothing.