Do any of you have past experience in choosing a content license for a new Wikimedia project?
I had the horrible realization today that this has not been done for Toolhub. I have filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288832 with my initial ideas. I have also reached out via private message (slack) to the Foundation's Legal team for their advice on policies and procedures that need to be followed for this kind of thing.
Regardless of your past experience selecting licenses for a whole project, if you have strong and informed opinions on CC0 vs CC-BY for the type of data that Toolhub will aggregate I welcome your feedback here or on the Phabricator task.
Bryan
I defer to Legal for advice on the license for the Toolhub itself. I think, however, that it is important to have a very noticeable statement saying that the license for each individual tool is as identified by the owner(s) of that tool, and that the Toolhub license applies only to the information collected in the Toolhub pages. That allows the owners of the tools to designate a different license as appropriate to their tool.
One person's thoughts only.
Risker/Anne
On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 11:40, Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
Do any of you have past experience in choosing a content license for a new Wikimedia project?
I had the horrible realization today that this has not been done for Toolhub. I have filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288832 with my initial ideas. I have also reached out via private message (slack) to the Foundation's Legal team for their advice on policies and procedures that need to be followed for this kind of thing.
Regardless of your past experience selecting licenses for a whole project, if you have strong and informed opinions on CC0 vs CC-BY for the type of data that Toolhub will aggregate I welcome your feedback here or on the Phabricator task.
Bryan
Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Toolhub-dev mailing list -- toolhub-dev@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/toolhub-dev.lists.wikimedia.org/
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:40 AM Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I defer to Legal for advice on the license for the Toolhub itself. I think, however, that it is important to have a very noticeable statement saying that the license for each individual tool is as identified by the owner(s) of that tool, and that the Toolhub license applies only to the information collected in the Toolhub pages. That allows the owners of the tools to designate a different license as appropriate to their tool.
One person's thoughts only.
100% agreement. The only thing the content license would cover is the data that goes into and comes out of Toolhub's own API. I hope this is not a difficult thing to convey to users.
Bryan
I've pinged Lydia on the task, I think her experience could be helpful.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 12:55 PM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:40 AM Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I defer to Legal for advice on the license for the Toolhub itself. I
think, however, that it is important to have a very noticeable statement saying that the license for each individual tool is as identified by the owner(s) of that tool, and that the Toolhub license applies only to the information collected in the Toolhub pages. That allows the owners of the tools to designate a different license as appropriate to their tool.
One person's thoughts only.
100% agreement. The only thing the content license would cover is the data that goes into and comes out of Toolhub's own API. I hope this is not a difficult thing to convey to users.
Bryan
Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Toolhub-dev mailing list -- toolhub-dev@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/toolhub-dev.lists.wikimedia.org/
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