| Psychoslave added a comment. |
In T193728#4214437, @MisterSynergy wrote: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.
How would it render it useless? Or more useless than today? For some actors like OSM it is useless because they don't trust Wikidata claim that this data can legally be released under CC-0. For those who don't care about acting legally, any license will make the same effect.
Is there any official claim by the WMF that said this kind of import were legally fine? Before Wikidata was launched, @Denny used to agree that Wikipedia imports would not be possible including for legal reasons, that is at the time he was officially working for WMDE. If any official statement clearly exposed otherwise in the mid-time, it would be nice to highlight this information. Not being challenged by some entity doesn't mean what an action is legal, just as any legal infraction it doesn't become more legal because no one bother challenging the issue.
Once again, among the obvious solutions, indicating the license of sources would require no deletion. That would allow those who care about license issues to filter data with this criteria, and those who don't care to ignore it. What would be the argument against such a field addition?
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