Hoi,
Wikipedia does not allow for original research. This means that a Wikipedia
is a repackaging of what is already known. Individual facts if they can be
copyrighted in the first place, are therefore not for the WMF to license.
As to the licensing of data mining Wikipedia for research and, this is what
we are talking about when we consider DBpedia, I had asked it a long time
ago on behalf of a group of linguists that used Wikipedia as a corpus. This
was all done by mail. I am sure that Mike may be willing to say something
about this.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/5/21 Egon Willighagen <[email protected]>
> 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/
>
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