Tom et al, The OL "license terms" are the IA "license terms" -- thus: http://archive.org/about/terms.php
It is not CC0, because most of the info in OL is not owned by OL/IA. Only a rights owner can assign a CC license. OL already pulls in descriptions from Wikipedia and sources them: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL29497A/Herman_Melville I believe that this fulfills the "attribution - share alike" of Wikipedia. kc On 2/12/13 11:16 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:58 AM, John Shutt <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
