On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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..
Yes, people keep repeating that... yet EU law, at least in NL, disagrees... Just pointing to this USA law is not useful outside the USA. > 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. That would actually be interesting. If they make such s public statement, that would clarify the intention and address much of the legal confusion. Can you please point me to this public statement of the WMF that states that data extractions (like info from ChemBoxes) is free to anyone to be used in any way they want to (like license under CC0)? Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
