Re: [Wikidata-l] Data copyright and licensing

2012-08-05 Thread Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
However, I believe this is irrelevant. Creative Commons version 3 does include database rights for those localized licenses in legislations implementing database rights (e.g. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/legalcode

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data copyright and licensing

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 03.08.2012 15:04, Jan Kučera wrote: Hm, but I think you fail to import data from Wikipedia under CC-0... from lists, infoboxes and even the language links? Individual data points are not copyrightable, so they can just be copied. If this wasn't the case, we could not cite any non-free

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data copyright and licensing

2012-08-02 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, did anyone think of possible copyright restrictions on the use of external data within wikidata? I am not sure common public sources of data are usable right away... seems like copyright works the same with data

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data copyright and licensing

2012-08-02 Thread Jan Kučera
Yes this is quite important decision to be made... So far officials here did not comment on it... Do they want to use cc-by-sa or rather odbl? Dne 2.8.2012 19:58 rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com napsal(a): Should there be a clear license right from the beginning to avoid what happened to