Hoi,
I am really pleased that you are willing to follow the WMF in this but as I
have argued on this list in the past, DBpedia is a collection of facts.. in
essence they can individually not be copyrighted. In the past I have had the
WMF say that they are happy for extractions like the DBpedia ones under any
license.
It would be beneficially when DBpedia allowed for a more liberal license.. I
am sure that it can and may. In this reply I have added Mike Godwin, the
lawyer of the WMF, and I hope that he is willing to shed some light on this.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/5/21 Chris Bizer <[email protected]>
> Hi Gerard and all,
>
>
>
> as it is the goal of the DBpedia project to make extracted Wikipedia data
> as freely and easily usable as possible, I think we are happy to follow the
> Wikipedia license change and will make the next DBpedia release available
> under CC-BY-SA license.
>
>
>
> Are there any objections against this policy by anybody?
>
>
>
> I think that we would even be willing to go a step further and release
> DBpedia under a even more liberal license, but we don’t know if we are
> allowed to do this. We are not lawyers and there seem to be tricky points
> about databases being creative works and differences between European and US
> law on this. We also don’t know if extracting the first 250 words of each
> Wikipedia article and putting them into a database is creative enough to
> justify to have this database under a more liberal license then Wikipedia.
>
>
>
> If somebody with a solid legal background knows the answers to these
> questions, we would be more than happy if he could give us some advice.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
> *Von:* Gerard Meijssen [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2009 09:09
> *An:* dbpedia-discussion
> *Betreff:* [Dbpedia-discussion] license update at the Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
>
> Hoi,
> As expected the Wikimedia Foundation will change its licensing. In the past
> it was said that DBpedia would follow suit. It is important that it does
> when you assume that DBpedia needs a license in the first place. As there is
> little time left in which this change can be made, I urge you all to follow
> the WMF.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Result
>
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