On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:58 AM, John Shutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I noticed that a lot of books on Open Library don't have descriptions, so > I've started working on > NondescriptBot<https://github.com/pemulis/nondescript-bot>, > which would make it easy to pull book summaries from Wikipedia, reformat > them, and add them to Open Library. I haven't written any code yet (except > for the login, which was adapted from > IdentifierBot<https://github.com/dmontalvo/IdentifierBot/blob/master/fastadder.py>), > but you can see the basic outline in the > comments<https://github.com/pemulis/nondescript-bot/blob/master/nondescriptbot.py> > . > > Before I go any further, I want to see if anyone knows if this bot would > be okay from a licensing standpoint. Wikipedia entries are licensed under > CC-BY-SA<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License>, > which requires attribution, while Open Library content is supposed to be > licensed under CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>, > which waives all rights. It's trivial to put a CC-BY-SA disclaimer at the > bottom of a description, but I don't know if it's permitted to add content > to OL that falls under that license. > No, you can't use a copyrightable amount of text which is CC-BY-SA licensed on a CC0 site. Part of the license is that you need to enforce it for sub-licensees & reusers, which there's no way to do with a CC0 work. You could paraphrase or reword the description, but that's clearly not a job for a bot. You could also extract a small enough amount of text that it would fall under "fair use" guidelines and then link back to Wikipedia for the full text. If nothing else, links to Wikipedia would be useful (provided that their reliable). Assuming this bot is allowed, it would be awesome to get advice and pull > requests from other developers! I'm coming into this project with very > limited knowledge of Python, so I'm sure there will be plenty of places > where my code could be improved. I'm happy to help with Python as well as OpenLibrary or Wikipedia APIs. Tom
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