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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