Emil, All content provided by DBpedia is extracted from Wikipedia, there are no additional content contributors. So I don't see a problem that DBpedia applies exactly the same licensing terms as Wikipedia.
Sören Am 23.09.2012 12:42, schrieb Emil Müller: > One might also be inclined to question the legality of the change with > respect to contributors under the old license. One such question arose > when Wikipedia changed their license. > From > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers#Legally_valid.3F: > > "Are such unilateral changes to a license legal in all jurisdictions > where people may wish to re-use our content? > - We believe that licensing updates that do not fundamentally alter the > spirit of the license and that are permitted through the license itself > are legally valid in all jurisdictions." > > However in this case, the added clausal does "alter the spirit" and what > is permitted, from the old license. > > 2012/9/23 Emil Müller <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > The DBpedia license has recently changed. I believe it should be > clarified further, in order to not violate the original Wikipedia > license. > > From 4(a): "When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, *You > may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that > restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise > the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the > License.* This Section 4(a) applies to the Work as incorporated in a > Collection, but this does not require the Collection apart from the > Work itself to be made subject to the terms of this License." > > I am not saying that the recently added attribution limitation is in > direct violation of this paragraph, but there are definitely parts > of DBpedia that it cannot apply to, such as the Work apart from the > Collection (not the other way around). > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
