| MisterSynergy added a comment. |
In T193728#4214033, @Denny wrote: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.
In case of serious doubt it is more appropriate to ask WMF’s legal department to organize a professional opinion regarding open questions (elaborated in house or via some hired external expert), regardless of User:Gnom’s unquestionable knowledge in this field. (Yes it is great that he adds expert opinion, but as far as I understand it is all unpaid legal advice he provides, right?)
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.
If any of those happened (or had to happen), I’d be out here and I guess many other Wikidata editors would also discontinue their efforts. There is great support for CC0 in Wikidata, since anything else that required attribution would render it useless; large-scale purging would tear down so much content that we would basically have to start again from the beginning. We are 5.5 years into this project and many of us have spent thousands of hours of effort into it, based on the unchallenged assumption (by WMF) that Wikipedia imports as we are doing them are legally fine.
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