| Denny added a comment. |
@Micru I agree with @Cirdan that this would be a rather worrying way to deal with the situation. Also, as @Nemo_bis points out, it really couldn't be just the communities doing so. In my understanding, it would need an update to the CC license itself, which would need to be done by CC, and then have the license be adopted by the Foundation together with the community, and this only works due to the or-later-clause. But as said, I would be rather troubled by such an approach.
My understanding is that the goal of this bug is to reduce the legal certainties as far as we can. As was pointed out by @EgonWillighagen only a series of court decisions will be able to resolve that 100%, but I don't think it makes sense to keep that bug open until then (if that ever happens). My current goal to shepherd this bug to a closure is to agree with people who have a different point of view on a question or two to ask Gnom1, and then work on from his answer. If, for example, it turns out that the extraction that Wikidata has done from Wikipedia is deemed breaking the license of Wikipedia, then we should indeed purge Wikidata of any data taken from such a license breach or change Wikidata's license to CC-BY-SA.
I hope that seems viable to everyone involved.
I am personally convinced that no license breach has happened, because the facts that have been exported to Wikidata are not covered by copyright. But, as @Rspeer pointed out correctly, my personal beliefs are not exactly relevant here. So here is my suggestion for a question to Gnom1, and I would be happy for others to refine it:
"Can you comment on the legal status of
- interwiki links and 2) other facts, such as places of birth,
be extracted from Wikipedia and be republished in Wikidata under a CC-0 license?"
@Psychoslave , @Rspeer , does this sound good to you?
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