I think Laura raised a very good point here.
One question, broader : 

is Wikidata team thinking about moving their dataset over block-chain?
That, I do believe, would incentivise people to participate, maintain, and even craft useful thing with clear licenses (eventually profiting based on utility of a thing ) .


Again, the possibility to compute / process things that are of public utility / governance depends on accessibliity to data.
Or, very large computation / legal / negitation power of a few stakeholders.

Making data accessisble from multiple stakehodlers from public audiences, or at least mirroring the meta-data, would allow a sane "competition" / collaboration in governance - with also concrete applications saving $$$ , like preventing companies collusions.

I also tried to connect with OpenCorporates - research and CEO.
No answer so far.





On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Laura Morales <lauretas@mail.com> wrote:
OK, just asked. Their reply was that they "reserves the right under paragraph 3.3 of ODbL to release the database under different terms", which is to say their data is NOT free because they want to control how and where the data is used.
Are we starting to see "free vs open" all over again, this time with data instead of software?
 
 

Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 5:06 PM
From: "Thad Guidry" <thadguidry@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Kickstartet: Adding 2.2 million German organisations to Wikidata

Laura,
 
Talk to OpenCorporates and ask those questions yourself.
Get involved ! :)
 

-Thad
+ThadGuidry[https://plus.google.com/+ThadGuidry]
  

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:22 AM Laura Morales <lauretas@mail.com[mailto:lauretas@mail.com]> wrote:Is there any RDF dump available of OpenCorporates data? Or even any dump at all? Their licensing terms are ambiguous... They say it's released under ODbL, but if I want to use the data I have to ask permission and they will decide if I can use it for free or if I have to pay a fee :/
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