Can you give me a reference for the statement that CCBYSA and ODBL are compatible? I understand that they have certain similarities, but I want to understand if I can take ODBL content and relicense it under CCBYSA and the other way around.
Or else what do you mean with "compatible"? 2012/11/28 Alexrk <[email protected]> > I guess things would be far more easier if WikiData would choose a > CCBYSA-compatible database license like ODbL. I can only repeat myself, > that the OpenStreetMap community went through a similar discussion and > decided to respect database rights and keep their data as clean as > possible. Because they didn't want to take the legal risk, that after 5 > years a big company like Google will sue them and so OSM might loose the > work of 5 years. > > I also think that there are two aspects in this topic: 1) the pure legal > aspects and 2) how we (Wikipedia users) treat each other and respect the > work of others. So the WMF might say: hey you European guys with your DB > rights... bad luck that you invest all your work into a US hosted project - > we don't care about your rights. Even _if_ this is legally not to be > objected, is it fair against the users? > > To make it clear: I'm into lots of list articles (streets and monuments) > which contains lots of data. This content is licenced under CCBYSA today. > The day when all this content will be expropriated by WikiData, is the day > I'll stop my work for these Wikipedia projects. > > Regards > Alex > > -- > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Benutzer:Alexrk2<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Alexrk2> > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<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.
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