Hoi,
When you use an application, it does not follow that the content becomes
part of that license. It is perfectly ok to create proprietary fiction
writing OpenOffice or conversely writing public domain fiction using
MS/Word.
The licensing of the material generated by DBpedia has Wikipedia as its
origin and its content is now available under the CC-by-sa as well as GFDL.
When you generate the DBpedia content, there are people who consider it to
be a derivative and consequently the combo of licenses would be appropriate,
there are also people who consider the process an abstraction of facts and
this allows for a different approach. Facts as such cannot be licensed. As a
collection facts can be licensed.
However, given that the DBpedia software is available under a free license,
claiming copyright on such a collection is problematic because everyone is
invited to use the software and mutatis mutandis the resulting collection
may be different.
My personal belief is that the approach of making the facts Free is the
right approach.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 March 2010 10:50, Cristian Consonni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/3/16 Peter Ansell <[email protected]>:
> > According to the sourceforge project page [1], the engine is released
> > into the Public Domain, but you would have to look at the individual
> > files for their copyright notices to confirm that there aren't other
> > licenses, and check the dependencies to make sure there are no viral
> > dependencies, like GPL for instance. Public Domain is definitely not
> > viral, but it is open source if people want to extend it and they
> > choose to keep the Public Domain or use another open license.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbpedia/
>
> Thanks for your clear answer. One more question, if you use GPLed
> software it is needed (virality) that you release your derivative work
> under GPL. I am concluding that DBpedia is released *both* on PD and
> under GPL. Is that corect?
>
> To be clear: you are free to release your code under the conditions
> you like but if you want to make a derivative work from GPLed software
> you have to release a "copy" (call it a "version") of your "derivative
> work" under GPL. This is true (AFAICT) for CC-SA licenses, also.
>
> Cristian
>
> p.s.: I am sorry to be late with my answer =).
>
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