Il giorno mer 22 dic 2021 alle ore 20:04 Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
The data is cc-0 the functions are cc-0 but the
generated text is licensed.. Great, so I take the data run, the functions and have the
text anyway.. or is that too simple a thought?
Il giorno ven 24 dic 2021 alle ore 00:11 Denny Vrandečić
<dvrandecic(a)wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
Yes, that is (almost) correct.
[...]
Sure, you could say "if I run these 50 functions
in a row and then combine the results, none of the individual function calls causes
copyright to kick in".
But that's like saying "if I type these 500 keys in a row on my keyboard and
then combine the results, none of the individual keystrokes causes copyright to kick
in."
If those letters happen to be in the same order as the letters in the first chapter of
"The Midnight Library", you still may encounter copyright issues.
Exactly. Moreover, adding on what Denny said, the difference between
CC0/Public domain and CC licenses is that the former is a status, the
latter are proper licenses.
In other words, if something is in CC0 or public domain, there are NO
obligations whatsoever - including the obligation of re-releasing
under CC0/Public domain a derivative work based on those CC0/Public
domain materials. If *you* want to release it under CC0/Public domain,
it's fine - but you cannot do anything about those who want to include
that material in a fully copyrighted derivative work.
So, using a CC BY-SA license on derivative texts will allow us to
re-use them directly on Wikipedia (since the license is the same), and
to keep them freely re-usable by anyone for their own purposes. Also,
there is NO 100% certainty that combining something that is in PD will
not cause copyright to kick in - see the founding principle of the
infamous database copyright directive in the EU. With a free license,
we shield ourselves also from this kind of risk.
It definitely is a limitation for those who want the output in public
domain, but it's a necessary compromise to prevent someone in the
future from doing anything that can harm the project.
L.