Because we ARE using standards like RDF or OWL (or HTML or URIs) which are W3C and IETF standards, and which in turn have a well documented policy regarding patents and copyrights, see e.g. <http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/> for W3C standards.
I hope that answers that question. Cheers, Denny 2012/9/3 John McClure <[email protected]>: > Hi Lydia! > > I don't think you're hearing the question. A reply y'all gave on the issue > was that any standard used by Wikidata needed to be 100% open-source -- no > money required as in free. Even though what is being charged by ISO to > support its business model is a PITTANCE in my humble opinion... So, the > consequent question I asked then was, if you're not going to use any (ISO or > national) standard then how can you assure the WP community that Wikidata is > not violating someone's copyright(s)? > > Thanks, > John > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Lydia >>Pintscher >>Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 10:35 AM >>To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. >>Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata, ISO and chembox >> >> >>On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Nadja Kutz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> Is there any news on the thoughts about including ISO >>standards into wikidata? >>> >>> in particular it would be nice to here someone from wikidata >>comment on this: >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/576 >>> ? >> >>Unless something changed on the freedom status of the documents needed >>nothing changed since we discussed this last. >> >>> this may also influence things like the chembox etc.: >>> >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/784 >>> >>> when will there be wikidata access for the chembox ? >> >>This is phase 2 of Wikidata which will be ready (hopefully >>early) next year. >> >> >>Cheers >>Lydia >> >>-- >>Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher >>Community Communications for Wikidata >> >>Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. >>Obentrautstr. 72 >>10963 Berlin >>www.wikimedia.de >> >>Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. >> >>Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg >>unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das >>Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wikidata-l mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
