On 16/giu/2013, at 03:47, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that
Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data
wholesale from Wikipedia.
that's indeed interesting, how can they throw the original
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 16/giu/2013, at 03:47, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that
Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data
On 16/giu/2013, at 12:14, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote:
that's indeed interesting, how can they throw the original viral licenses of
Wikipedia overboard?
Based on what I've seen, what they are copying from Wikipedia are data and
facts. In the US, facts are not
On 16.06.2013 12:27, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
On 16/giu/2013, at 12:14, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com
Based on what I've seen, what they are copying from Wikipedia are data
and facts. In the US, facts are not copyrightable as facts do not
originate from creative authorship and there
While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that
Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data
wholesale from Wikipedia.
So ATM if someone wants to do it you can just copy it to wikidata and
then osm.org.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM, SomeoneElse
Someone's being adding translations of place names using:
http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%85ra%C5%A1as:Jungtin%C4%97s_Karalyst%C4%97s_miestai
(which in turn references something else, according to the wikipedia page)
Apparently Place names translations are public knowledge and it can be
/sweat-of-the-brow thing for the n millionth time.
cheers
Richard
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