Benjamin Webb wrote:
Yes, I agree, a well aimed donation system would bring in quite a tidy sum for a project like this.
As for copyrights, when it comes it Genealogical data, most of it can't be copyrighted, as it is mostly facts. I have added certain familysearch GEDCOMs to my tree on Rodovid, do you think I am allowed to do this, as it is facts.
Of course, having a free license does make it much easier, there isn't an issue of trying to draw the line between fact and copyrightable material.
By the way, what do you think of the meta pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rodovid.org ?
Are there any other intellectual property hazards in connection with GEDCOMs? Does the LDS church or anyone else hold any software patents?
What verifiability standards would such a project have?
What policies would such a project follow in relation to privacy? Attitudes toward including living persons in a genealogical database are not consistent.
While I don't see any big copyright problems in relation to importing the GEDCOMs of others, I would be very concerned about the accuracy of these imported files. GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out.
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