Yes this is quite important decision to be made... So far officials here
did not comment on it... Do they want to use cc-by-sa or rather odbl?
Dne 2.8.2012 19:58 "rupert THURNER" <[email protected]> napsal(a):

> Should there be a clear license right from the beginning to avoid what
> happened to openstreetmap, which recently deleted data where they were
> unable to switch the license over to odbl?
>
> Rupert
> Am 02.08.2012 12:12 schrieb "Thomas Douillard" <[email protected]
> >:
>
>>
>>
>> 2012/8/2 Jan Kučera <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> did anyone think of possible copyright restrictions on the use of
>>> external data within wikidata? I am not sure common public sources of
>>> data are usable right away... seems like copyright works the same with
>>> data as with any other "work"... Sure, many organizations throw data
>>> into public domain, but it definitely is not an industry standard yet.
>>>
>>> Kozuch
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>> Hi. There is indeed laws that applys to data IF they are compiled, in my
>> understanding - nobody can copyright the geolocalisation of the Eiffel
>> tower alone for example, that would be absurd.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
>>
>> In my understanding there would be a problem if somebody imports data
>> massively from a protected database. Owners sometimes inserts false data in
>> their datasets to be able to prove that an illegal copy has been made. But
>> the "in beetween" single data and mass import is quite unclear to me :)
>>
>> On the other hand there are licences such as
>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data
>>
>> TomT0m
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