On Friday, October 07, 2011 at 10:30:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:13:26AM -0400, Rudy Lippan wrote: > > > > That is a tough one for me. I don't think that a list factual data itself > > is > > deserving of copyright protections esp. when the data cannot be recreated by > > someone else. > > This may be a touch off-topic for this list, but . . . why would you want
Perhaps a little off-topic. > to grant someone the ability to prohibit others from using *facts* by the > simple expedient of (for instance) alphabetizing a list of facts? That's I don't. But I do realize that there can be a great deal of work involved in compiling a data set. That is why I said that it is tough, and I don't know if I have an answer for the general case. But getting back on-topic: What I am looking for is more of a compromise. If you use this software, you have to respect the wishes of the of the people who write plugins/configurations for it whether or not they enjoy real honest-to-god legal protections. In other words a "play nice", "play fair", or "Don't pee in the pool" license. But I gather, form what I have seen so far, that there is much interest in this sort of thing. I still think something like this might be nice for fostering micro- contributions (possibly appealing to a non-programmer community).... > > > > > Do you think that it would be compatible with open source for super- > > data-munger(TM) 1.3 to say, "if you download* databases form the munger > > network(TM)+ > > and use super-data-munger to process the data, you must re-release the > > product > > of your munging along with your munger ruleset(TM) to the munger$ network?" > > > > I ask because this is related to another project with which I am involved. > > That seems to me like a Terms of Service issue. > The other project would be an attempt bring the idea of the GPL to data mining by providing a framework for collection, aggregating and re-distributing. But this would only be a framework, so I don't think a TOS would be the correct instrument. I have slides from a talk I did somewhere, but now I think we are getting off topic.... -r _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
