Thanks Gregor, I appreciate the quick and frank response!
I have noted that even when heritage organisations publish data they may not wish to - or even legally be able to - waive the rights in their data (which is primarily database right in the whole dataset, but could also be copyrights in particular elements) a la CC0. For commercial sector data, which has absolutely no mandate for this kind of CC0 openness due to public funding for its creation, there simply must be at least attribution; and probably built on top of that (as well as currency data, perhaps) granular licensing terms. I'm glad this is on wikidata's radar! :) Cheers, Michael -----Original Message----- From: Gregor Hagedorn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 November 2012 12:06 To: Michael Hopwood Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10 Hi Michael, (I cannot speak on behalf of WMF, this is not official) The plans for Wikidata are to carefully attribute sources of data, which comes much closer to what you need, i.e. 3rd party data are separatable. For the start the CC0 license has been chosen which gives you unlimited re-use rights, but other licenses may be supported later if needed. The discussion was to decide this only when the use cases start to come in. The real data use is still to come, so far wikidata can really only do the interlanguage linking of wikipedia pages. The rest is being worked on right now. Best Gregor _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
