Jul claims we can use information given by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), from his website.
He says this information can be used freely and is compatible with our license but only requires than the source be indicated.
Yann answers he doubts very much the validity of this assomption.
I tried to read the license, but I am no lawyer, and don't wish to be :-) Did anybody come across that situation before ? Is the license compatible ? Does it give us only the right to reproduce their article, or also to change it ?
a link http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/index.html?wipo_content_frame=/about-wipo/...
Here's one of the page Jul created from their web site http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_d%27auteur
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Here is a link to the English version: http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/index.html?wipo_content_frame=/about-wipo/...
It says, vaguely, that we can "use or reproduce" "any information presented". It's hard to see how that amounts to permission to alter and redistribute anything from their website.
To 'use' means to read and learn from and things like that.
To 'reproduce' means to reproduce exactly.
And 'information' is not normally the subject of copyright restrictions. We don't need permission to use _information_ from their site, only to use _text_ from their site. So in that sense, they are only giving bogus permission to do something we can do already.
I would say that this is NOT compatible and should not be used.
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