On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > That is a bit simplistic. It takes a huge effort to create dumps. The > dump > > of the English language Wikipedia is even notoriously difficult to > create. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow > > Huge effort is not copyrightable. > > I haven't seen anyone trying to lay claim to a copyright on the dumps. I would venture to say that it's merely a transformative work, as it doesn't do anything but collect them in a machine-readable format. The various dumps are designed to organize the information, not change them in any way. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
