I fully agree.
If CC4 comes before any decision is to be made with WikiData's licence it
would only be natural to use CC-BY-SA for data as well as for content. My
pleading for ODbL is as a temporary fix since right now, in countries such
as France, releasing data under CC-anything basically means CC0 on the data
without producers using it even knowing it (latest one yesterday here
data.visitprovence.com )

I was only arguing in favor to pursue the common goods attitude behind the
copyleft choice that was made before for Wikipedia.

Benjamin


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 01:35, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]> wrote:

> A few quick points:
>
> * The main lack of suitability of CC licenses for databases is that
> they don't explicitly (with a few exceptions in the case of certain
> jurisdiction "ports" which we can ignore) grant permissions that
> mitigate non-copyright database rights. If not for this, ODbL and some
> government-specific licenses such as UK OGL would probably not have
> been motivated enough to exist
>
> * However, the bar for plain old copyright restricting databases is
> unfortunately low, especially outside the US, which may in part
> explain use of various CC licenses for various databases from the very
> beginning of CC; some background at
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283
>
> * Version 4.0 of the various CC licenses will almost certainly license
> sui generis database rights and similar just as they do copyright. I
> would hope that Wikimedia projects (in general, ignoring Wikidata for
> now) will move to 4.0 shortly after it is done, otherwise it won't be
> actually done IMO. :) 1st draft announced today
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32157
>
> * Although it may not have happened if CC 3.0 or before licenses
> explicitly addressed database rights, ODbL is similar to CC-BY-SA in
> that they're both copyleft/reciprocal/viral/hereditary licenses, they
> are quite different in detail, most significantly:
>
>  - ODbL requires machine-readable source (entire derivative database,
> or patch); CC-BY-SA has no source requirement
>
>  - ODbL allows for "produced works" (eg a rendered map) not subject
> to same license requirement; if work derivative of CC-BY-SA, same
> license must be used (modulo exceptions & limitations of course)
>
> * The most significant issue is not a difference exactly: ODbL and
> CC-BY-SA are each only compatible with themselves (and note that CC0
> is donor compatible with them both, but obviously not recipient
> compatible)
>
> * I would guess the first thing to figure out is whether compatibility
> is needed, and where. At one extreme, Wikidata would have no choice
> but to use CC-BY-SA as that's what other Wikimedia projects are using,
> and it will be ingesting data from. At the other extreme, that data is
> all public domain and or there's community agreement on boundary of
> data and everything else, and Wikidata data can be CC0, ODbL, or
> whatever else is deemed to be the best fit.
>
> IANAL etc,
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 07:33, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > To keep along the sharing path that was adopted with the original choice
> of
> > CC-BY-SA for contents one could argue in favor of OpenDataCommons' ODbL.
> It
> > is basically the equivalent of CC-BY-SA but for data, and is the choice
> > OpenStreetMap made among others.
> > This could be a good way to ensure WikiData's full database won't be
> > pivatised without any giving back to the community
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
> > http://www.RegardsCitoyens.org
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 16:27, Denny Vrandečić <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Yep, until now we always have been discussing and are strongly leaning
> >> towards CC-0 for the data content, and CC-BY-SA for the textual content
> of
> >> Wikidata, i.e. the project pages, discussion pages, etc.
> >>
> >> We are fully aware that most CC licenses are not adequate for data.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Denny
> >>
> >>
> >> 2012/4/2 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> Hoi,
> >>> The question if CC is the right license for data is a bit limited; what
> >>> CC license?. There are many licenses available by Creative Commons.
> >>>
> >>> When you consider facts, on their own they cannot be copyrighted and
> >>> consequently licensed. A CC-0 license would work really well for them.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>       Gerard
> >>>
> >>> On 2 April 2012 14:30, Alexrk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi, because Locos asked me to post this on the mailinglist as well...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#Is_CC_the_right_license_for_data.3F
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Alex
> >>>>
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