Yes this is quite important decision to be made... So far officials here did not comment on it... Do they want to use cc-by-sa or rather odbl? Dne 2.8.2012 19:58 "rupert THURNER" rupert.thurner@gmail.com napsal(a):
Should there be a clear license right from the beginning to avoid what happened to openstreetmap, which recently deleted data where they were unable to switch the license over to odbl?
Rupert Am 02.08.2012 12:12 schrieb "Thomas Douillard" <thomas.douillard@gmail.com
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2012/8/2 Jan Kučera kozuch82@gmail.com
Hi there,
did anyone think of possible copyright restrictions on the use of external data within wikidata? I am not sure common public sources of data are usable right away... seems like copyright works the same with data as with any other "work"... Sure, many organizations throw data into public domain, but it definitely is not an industry standard yet.
Kozuch
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Hi. There is indeed laws that applys to data IF they are compiled, in my understanding - nobody can copyright the geolocalisation of the Eiffel tower alone for example, that would be absurd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
In my understanding there would be a problem if somebody imports data massively from a protected database. Owners sometimes inserts false data in their datasets to be able to prove that an illegal copy has been made. But the "in beetween" single data and mass import is quite unclear to me :)
On the other hand there are licences such as http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data
TomT0m
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