FYI from legal-discuss. I think I will give it a little more time to
percolate and then put it up on zones. Other option is to host
offsite somewhere, but I would prefer not to do that.
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Justin Erenkrantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: April 25, 2007 12:23:26 AM EDT
To: "Grant Ingersoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Wikipedia content, GNU Free Documentation License and
Apache
On 4/24/07, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We on Lucene Java are _considering_ mirroring a specific version of
Wikipedia's collection for testing and benchmarking purposes on our
zones account for people to download to run specific tests related to
search performance and quality. It is important that we use a
specific version so that it is repeatable. WikiMedia doesn't archive
for long enough for their links to be reliable, therefore we cannot
just grab the latest version from Wikipedia. See [1] for more
details if interested.
The content, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GFDL, is licensed under the GNU Free
Documentation License. More details can be found at [2].
I guess the question is, is this all right? http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights seems to say this would be OK, but IANAL
and all that stuff. Anyone have experience with how ASF deals with
the GFDL in this kind of situation? I suppose we could look into
hosting off site, too, but would rather it be controlled by us.
As long as you do not distribute the Wikipedia database in a Lucene
release and just have a copy hosted on your Lucene zone or something
similar so that committers can get at it easily, I don't see a
particular problem here. If you make changes to the documentation or
whatever, you would just need to follow the rules of GFDL
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html).
BTW, would you need to commit the database to Subversion? (I'd
certainly hope not.)
HTH. -- justin
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