Hi!
Can I assume the brief waiver by the UniProt PI to not be sufficient for allowing even the federated use in WikiData of sparql.uniprot.org. If that assumption is correct I will restart the long UniProt internal struggle to get that fixed.
Frankly, I am not sure what to do with this. The ND part is kind of concerning, and I'm not a lawyer so I am not even sure I understand it properly. While it looks like the "BY" part can be satisfied with https://query.wikidata.org/copyright.html type page, the ND part still remains and I'm not sure how to deal with it. The letter answer is great and I am thankful for it, but what I am concerned about is how to make it the matter of record - in 5 years, maybe both myself and person who wrote this letter would forget about it, and the system still needs to be maintained. So if there were some statement on official UniProt docs that says this case is OK (within some kind of FAQ probably? Maybe http://www.uniprot.org/help/license ) or somehow a way to make an official permission (some kind of letter to legal@wikimedia.org? I don't know, I don't have much experience with this) that would make it much easier.