On 04.08.2012 19:42, Alexrk wrote:
However, I would find it weird, if something like a list of the streets of Berlin [3] would not fall under the same licence conditions as any other "normal" Wikipedia article, just because it is more a kind of a database.
As far as I understand, a list of all streets of berlin is not copyrightable at all (and even database protection is doubtful for a full list, since the protection is based on the curation and effort of selection). If it's not copyrightable, any license based on copyright can not possibly apply to it. Also, database rights are held by the *publisher* (that is, WMF), not the author. So, even if database rights apply, the author could not license the work but would, as far as I understand this, be transferring the rights to the publisher automatically (this seams very strange to me, but apparently, that's how database rights work).
-- daniel