For the sake of completeness, I am not about starting a new commercial activity using DBpedia (I would be happy to do so, but I am not), this was more like a "philosophical" question. I am a member of Wikimedia Italia (Italian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation) and in a recent discussion on CC Italian mailing list[1] (which is unrelated from WMF, but many people have common ideas ;-)... ) somebody was wondering if CC-BY-SA was suitable for databases (like Open Street Map) and how database-like works built from Wikipedia (or OSM or any other free project) should be licensed.
2010/3/15 Peter Ansell <[email protected]>: > The engine that uses the mappings could be licensed under another > license though. IMHO, this is a fundamental point. I mean... even if DBpedia software would be released using a viral license[2] (like GPL, for instance) and also Wikipedia license has this property ("SA" condition), probably a "derivative" work in the sense above could be released with a non free license. But this isn't this likely to betray the spirit of the original licenses? On the other hand a software *or something built on the top of a research engine using only information and not the original software* is a well different product either from an encyclopaedia or the research engine itself. How can you call it a "derivative work" and why it should it be affected by the virality of the "original work"? On an different but not uncorrelated topic, I repeat I haven't understood yet with what license DBpedia software is released (i.e. DBpedia engine). Thank you for your time. Cristian [1] a pointer (if you can read italian) http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-it/2010-March/thread.html#start [2] a viral license requires the derivative work to be released with the same license of the original ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
