Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I use it loosely as both Open and Free software applications make use of this resource. The NTG is really not interested in licenses, they want the resource to be used. In a way I sympathise even agree, once information is truly Free there is no purpose in making a proprietary resource that does the same.
The problem is not that they cannot make the information itself non free, but if a commercially interested party improves on it using our information as a base, it would be nice that the improvements/corrections remain free as well. This is especially important for software. I'm not sure how important it is for dictionary or encyclopedia entries.
Jo