On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Tim Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > The license is share alike 3.0, the reasons we need advice is because we are > using modified/derived version (the clause in the legal FAQ starts > "Unmodified media..."). Specifically, we built a lucene index with 5000 > wikipedia articles relating to medicine. Each article is modified by > reducing it to list of words and their counts in that article. Is there some > advice on whether this sort of modification is allowable or whether it > disqualifies?
A language model derived from a corpus is not necessarily a derived work of the corpus. Opinions vary. Some would tell you that it's a new work entirely, and you own it. Others would tell you that you need a specific license from the original content owners. > Tim > > On 01/02/2013 11:28 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> it depends on which CA license the material is licensed under. >> >> The legal FAQ clarifies it for some of them: >> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html >> >> For Creative Commons Share Alike 2.5/3.0 it says: >> "Unmodified media under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 >> and >> Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licenses may be included in >> Apache products, subject to the licenses attribution clauses which may >> require LICENSE/NOTICE/README changes. ...." >> >> Is that the license wikipedia is licensed under? >> >> Jörn >> >> On 01/02/2013 05:10 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> We would like to check in some derived features/models from Wikipedia >>> into the src code base and would like to double check - are Creative Commons >>> Licenses compatible with ASL 2.0? >>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ >>> We couldn't find it in the approved 3rd party list: >>> http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Pei >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Tim Miller [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 3:22 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: checking in wiki >>> >>> Hi team, >>> I'm just about ready to check in the wikipedia small index and the new >>> coref features and models that take advantage of them, and I want to verify >>> what changes we need to make to the license/notice to allow this in the next >>> release. The NOTICE section has the dependent software included -- is it >>> sufficient to add something like this: >>> >>> This product includes contents adapted from the English-language >>> Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) developed under the Creative Commons >>> Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License >>> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). >>> >>> Thanks >>> Tim >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
