Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2010/3/22 Ted Thibodeau Jr <[email protected]>: > >> However, the triples which are produced by those extractors, the >> *data* which is held in Virtuoso, is a derivative work based on >> Wikipedia. This collection (copyrightable, etc.) of facts (not >> inherently copyrightable) >> > > This is a good point, the "list of cities in Germany" is not > inherently copyrightable IMHO, but as a collection of data extracted > from a (common) source it is likely it is. The most funny thing is > that if this sounds strange to you think about the fact that with > traditional (sic) copyright you can't access those data. > > >> is released (as of DBpedia v3.4) under >> the CC-SA, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, 3.0 license >> and the GNU Free Documentation License. >> >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License> >> <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html> >> >> The clauses of the CC-SA license particularly relevant to this >> discussion are -- >> >> - Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner >> specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way >> that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work.) >> >> - Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, >> you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, >> similar or a compatible license. >> >> Linked Data being something of a new world, I (and many others) have >> suggested that a literal attribution is not satisfactory Attribution, >> but that URI integrity should generally be preserved, and anywhere >> a new URI is minted (especially where the new URI is used instead >> of the original), an RDF relationship should be declared to the >> originating URI -- which may demand that a new Relationship be built >> into some ontology, e.g., basedOn, derivedFrom, or something along >> these lines. >> >> The basic point being -- if you pull data from Wikipedia, you should >> point back there. If you pull data from DBpedia, you should point >> back *there* (and DBpedia, in turn, points back to Wikipedia). This >> way, provenance is maintained, and credit is given where it is due. >> >> > > You completely got the point =). > > >> Thus far, DBpedia has not posted these requirements in clear fashion; >> that's an error, I think. Nonetheless -- best practice, good manners, >> and the spirit underlying most FOSS projects including Wikipedia, >> all demand that attribution be appropriate to the medium. In print, >> a simple literal statement is fine. In machine-readable data, the >> attribution should likewise be machine-readable. >> > > Sound good to me. I hope that a solution (as the above you mentioned) > will be implemented soon. > Though, evidence seems that existing licenses by themselves don't > cover this situations. > Which is back to the essence of my original response.
Attribute your sources using their machine readable Identifiers re. DBpedia or any other CC-BY-SA data source. This is exactly the same pattern in use by Freebase, and they've groked the concept without issue. Kingsley > Cristian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
