Jimmy Wales wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I do ask the board: When the Ultimate Wiktionary
is life, do we allow
all and any use of our data and do we allow at least other Open or Free
organisations to use the content of the UW in their applications without
restrictions ?
I am very sorry, but I do not understand the question. I support that
people should be able to freely use our data, but as per specific
questions, I don't quite get what you are asking.
--Jimbo
Hoi,
The NTG is a Dutch organisation that maintains a resource that is used
by most Open/Free software application that are in need of such a
resource. These applications are under any and all Open / Free licenses.
The NTG has it nominally under the LGPL but they do not enforce it at
all. The license is there to ensure that nobody can make it propietary.
I do want to cooperate with these people, getting the list into the
Ultimate Wiktionary is relatively easy but it would make more sense if
we could be a resource to hold this type of data for ANY Open / Free
application. It would give us a community that is instantly much bigger.
It would give the UW an extra objective; to be the lexicological
resource of choise for Open / Free projects. I am of the opinion that
this would be an opportunity too good to miss.
When we achieve this for the Dutch language, I am sure we will be able
to achieve this for other languages as well. The question is can we do
this and are we willing to do this from a license point of view and how
do we do this with licenses in mind.
Thanks,
Gerard