Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

Hi Stas, Well said! The irony of it all is that more restrictive license terms would be such a big obstacle mainly to smaller users. Companies like Google have both the lawyers and the IT support to handle any kind of license. You can see it from the sources that Google already shows for

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

On 20.06.2016 19:57, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! Lest we forget https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tina+turner Look at the right side Google Knowledge Graph panel Wikipedia is displayed as sources of information. Wikipedia gets attribution and a bit of free advertising. Compared to

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

Nicolas, Markus, Gerrard, Stas, Egon and Wikidatans, Thanks for your clarifications from within the Wikidata community about Creative Commons' licensing and possible other ones. With CC Wikidata's 358 languages, it seems to be in an important position over time to help define and come into

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

Hi! > Current legislations do not support the licensing of individual facts, > only of databases as a whole, and only in some countries. What you are Added to that, even if it *were* possible to copyright facts, I think using restrictive license (and make no mistake, any license that requires

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

All, first, thanks for your reply blog, Gerard. On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Markus Kroetzsch wrote: >> I have written my opinion on the licensing of Wikidata data.. [1] > > I agree with your position there. So do I. The original article ends with: "Among

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

On 18.06.2016 08:37, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, I have written my opinion on the licensing of Wikidata data.. [1] I agree with your position there. It's nice to have an argument that appeals to our goals of sharing and altruism. My former argument was more about the undesirable legal

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

In addition to my previous critique about the unsourced claims here, I also have made a comment on the talk page regarding my own position in this matter, which I replicate here for completeness: """ Current legislations do not support the licensing of individual facts, only of databases as a

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

On 16.06.2016 17:45, nicolasm...@tutanota.com wrote: FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-06-15/Op-ed Picking licenses is a complex topic, and it is extremely important to some people -- projects have split over this. I understand. But do emotions always have